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Happily married Sharon agrees to accompany her newly divorced friend Barbara and Barbara's children cross-country, and the trip affords the two women a chance to learn much about themselves and each other
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From Publishers Weekly
Kupfer's second novel ( Surviving the Seasons ) is like the swimming-allowed area of a roped-off lake; deep water is out there, but the action takes place where everyone can touch bottom. Sharon, the narrator, is content with marriage, motherhood and a part-time job writing household hints for a newsletter. She is disturbed when her best friend Barbara decides to leave her husband, but agrees to drive with Barbara and their three daughters from Urbana, Ill., to San Francisco, where Barbara rejoins her lover, the only insubstantial character in a book inhabited by recognizable human beings. While Sharon wonders what makes people unhappy, her daughter Libby wants to know why people have spit in their mouths. Consistently engaging, Sharon looks back on her life: the formative experiences of her childhood, her companionable marriage, the loss of a son to sudden crib death. The journey doesn't lead Sharon or Barbara to new discoveries, but reaffirms the choices each has made. Suggesting emotional depths without entering them, this novel offers the kind of cool and soothing, if shallow, summer reading many readers enjoy. First serial to Redbook.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
In Kupfer's first novel, Surviving the Seasons ( LJ 8/87), she described long-term marriages and the effect of death on the survivors. Now she turns the same loving eye on midlife marriages, examining two couples: Barbara and David Glasser are divorcing; their best friends Sharon and Jesse Burke are not. On a cross-country trip to help Barbara relocate in California, Sharon reflects on her marriage to Jesse and her friendship with Barbara. Eschewing easy answers, the author contrasts a couple who, despite tragedy and real differences, work to maintain and improve their marriage with a couple who seem to have it all but cannot make their marriage work. This honest and affectionate look at adult relationships is a pleasure to read.
- Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
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Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 56767109-6