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Open House

By Elizabeth Berg

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| Hardcover | 9780375506031

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In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.

Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overchargingContinue

In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.

Samantha's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember—and reclaim—the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage.

Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.

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  • Open House By Elizabeth Berg

    The month of June offers several great choices for reading groups. BookPage's selections, all newly published in paperback, are listed below. We hope these titles will inspire lively discussion in your book club. Open House By Elizabeth BergAn Oprah ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

  • Open House by Elizabeth Berg

    With a good Elizabeth Berg novel, you feel as though you are there in the narrator's shoes, feeling her emotions. You might have to remind yourself that the events of the book are happening to a fictional character. Berg's writing, at its best, is fu ... (read full critics)

    theromancereader published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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    A moving story of the journey to wholeness of a woman whose sudden abandonment by her husband of 20 years upends her whole world.

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