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Darling Clementine

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Samantha, poet and free spirit, is searching for love and acceptance and thinks she's found it with her newly wed husband, assistant district attorney, Arthur Clementine. Although she's found real love with a husband who truly accepts her the way she is, she still feels an emptiness inside of her that she can't explain. She comes to realize that the love and acceptance she craves is the love that is missing from her relationship with her parents, who have become cold and distant toward her. With the help of her psychiatrist and her conversations with "God" (a troubled caller who she helps at her crisis hot-line job), she's able to confront her issues about her parents and let go of them.

You'll especially enjoy this book if you are an Andrew Klavan fan, but a work of warning, it is written in a little different style than some of his more popular books, like True Crime and Don't Say a Word. It's more of a novella than a full-length novel. The book is told from Samantha's point of view and because she is a poet she tends to think in analogies and metaphors. This made it a little too deep and difficult for me to follow at times. Andrew Klavan describes the main characters in this book very vividly. They are kooky, but likable, which made this an enjoyable, thought-provoking book.