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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Pantheon; First Edition edition (June 19, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375424369
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375424366
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.3 x 9.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (164 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #880,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
LIVES REDEFINED BY THE ABSENCE OF ONE
By Laurel-Rain Snow TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on May 9, 2012
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A lovely summer home in the Berkshires is the scene of a very special get-together.

The Frankel family, including the parents, David and Marilyn and their three daughters Clarissa, Lily, and Noelle, will be memorializing the death of their beloved son and brother, Leo, one year after his tragic demise. They each descend upon the site of so many previous family gatherings, knowing full well that the memories from the past will accompany them as they take this journey without their fallen son and brother.

As the family gathers, bringing them all from their respective homes and lives, the reader learns a bit about each of them and what issues and struggles define them; we also discover how the loss of Leo redefines who they are in relation to one another and how their lives now look in his absence. Clarissa and her husband are struggling with fertility issues; Lily has asked her partner not to come, so she can vent her anger and just be who she is; and Noelle, who has been living in Israel with her husband and four children and practicing Orthodox Judaism, has some uncertainties of her own.

Also joining them is Thisbet, Leo's widow, and their son Calder. Always feeling a bit like an outsider, Thisbet's journey from California brings with it a residue of these emotions, along with a secret she plans to share.

What will happen to each of them now that they have to go on without Leo? Will the siblings somehow reunite and grow close again, forgetting about the things that have divided them over the years? Or will they forever be changed, and not for the better?

A journalist, Leo's capture and killing in Iraq has also brought up strong feelings about the political aspects of the war for several family members.Read more ›
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Four and a Half Stars
By Brett Benner VINE VOICE on July 6, 2012
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Henkin's story of a family that gathers over the 4th of July holiday for a memorial service for the only son, a journalist, killed in Iraq, is both intimate, and raw in it's emotions. The parents forty year marriage is on the outs because of the tragedy, and Marilyn, the Mother is fretting over how and when to tell her three daughters all of whom have their own issues. Add to that the widow, and daughter in law Thisbe, who has arrived with her son, and her own conflicted feelings, having already gotten involved with another man a little over a year after her husbands death. Henkin avoids the proceedings becoming overwrought or melodramatic, but instead peels back the curtain on a slice of life with characters that at times might not be likable, but whose emotions feel real and genuine.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Family tragedy and its aftermath
By asiana VINE VOICE on August 5, 2012
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I really wanted to like this book, but was really glad when I finished reading it.

The story revolves around three sisters,all with differing personalities that one wonders if they really are related--one is trying to conceive, another has become an Orthodox Jew living in Israel with four young sons and a somewhat abusive husband, and another seems to have a happy relationship. Add to this, their parents who are planning a divorce after years of marriage,a dead son whose memorial service all are attending a year after his death, his "grieving" widow and their young child and you have the makings of a fine story. But, the author, instead of allowing the reader to "feel" the emotions of the various characters, "tells" in minute detail what they are feeling. This led to my thinking "is the end soon?" Sorry, but I can't recommend this book.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Fireworks and family
By "switterbug" Betsey Van Horn TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on June 27, 2012
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In the Berkshires, during an enervating July Fourth weekend, three generations of Frankels gather together in 2005 for a memorial to their beloved son, brother, and spouse, Leo Frankel, a journalist who was kidnapped and killed in the Iraq War the previous year. As memories of Leo float through the narrative, old resentments and new secrets float to the top like crude oil in a jar of hearts. Henkin didn't break any new contextual ground here. He was going for the familiar themes of loss, perseverance, understanding, love despite all, forgiveness, and redemption within a garden-variety package tied up with some stock twine.

You've seen this family before in domestic dramas: the 21st century elite, pedigreed, liberal, secular family with a few black sheep conservatives. Just about all the Ivy League or first tier colleges are represented, and those who didn't obtain their PhDs or MDs are smarter than the ones who did.

One of the three beautiful daughters, Noelle, seems overtly fabricated. Henkin is trying to convince the reader that Noelle was once a sex-obsessed alley cat who moved to Israel and, par to the characteristic flip side of the personal coin, became an Orthodox Jew, with the support of her American husband, also turned Orthodox Jewish. A portrayal of two extremes in one person is not an unusual profile, and in fact is a prevalent human composition.

However, I was not convinced that first-incarnation Noelle was anything but a free spirit--refreshing and curious, independent and phase-healthy. Her morphing into a compulsive Orthodox, adhering so rigidly that they even bring their own Kosher food from Israel to this weekend, rejecting the Kosher food offered by her parents, was patently unbelievable.Read more ›
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