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A touching story of a woman's search for family,
This review is from: If You Had a Family: A Novel (Paperback)
Barbara Wilson paints a beautiful story of realization in "If You Had a Family," a novel that clearly hits close to home (Wilson herself was raised in a Christian Scientist home, as was the family of the main character). Cory's struggle to accept the past and painlessly integrate her memories into her present is portrayed in a gentle and loving manner; though nearing forty, Cory is still a child, still in need of a family and feeling the effects of living alone in a world full of mothers, none of them hers.We sympathize also with Cory during her awkward attempts at finding a surrogate outlet for the emotions that have been repressed within her for decades. A blossoming relationship with activist lawyer Rosemary Reardon (who is a good contrast character to Cory's--one of a brood of Irish Catholic children, she is bubbly where Cory is blase) provides solace for Cory, as does her acquaintance with her brother's children, who in a sense are also hers. |
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If You Had a Family: A Novel by Barbara Sjoholm (Paperback - August 27, 1996)
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