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Thirty years ago Jo Becker's bohemian's life ended when she found her best friend brutally murdered in the house they shared in Cambridge. Now Jo has everything: work she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, a beautiful Massachusetts farmhouse. And, if occasionally she feels a stranger to herself, she need only look at her daughters or her husband to recall the satisfactions of family, community, and marriage. But when an old housemate settles in her small town, the fabric of her life begins to unravel: Jo hesitantly begins a relationship that returns her to the darkest moment of her past and imperils all she loves. Abridged.

"'While I Was Gone'...gives Miller the chance to limn a '60s youth, an initially contented marriage and, eventually, a marriage struggling to regain its balance. She handles all three areas with masterly skill. It's just the connective tissue that feels contrived, in part because of weak plotting and in part because Eli, foggily characterized in both his past and his present incarnations, remains an ungraspable character."

Beth W. Singer, Salon, 02/03/1999

"[R]ichly detailed, ambiguous....Guilt and retribution, Miller's familiar themes, are the story's fault lines, and yet Jo's self-absorption makes its outcome less engrossing than it might be.

New Yorker, 03/22/1999

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