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\n NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \u2022 The renowned author of The Women presents a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter\u2014the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into the characters\u2019 psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.\u201d\u2014Washington Post Book World<\/p>\n

Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter, cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora\u2019s past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of the woman she hasn’t spoken to for almost a decade. <\/p>\n

Nora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends, inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone’s hearts had been broken. . . . <\/p>\n

What began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family\u2019s past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty, wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look at her mother\u2014and herself\u2014through the eyes of a woman. And she must, finally, allow herself to love.

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Ballantine Books
Publication date \u200f : \u200e November 2, 2004
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Print length \u200f : \u200e 448 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0345483448
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0345483447
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.18 x 0.86 x 7.85 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #21 in Contemporary Women Fiction #58 in Women’s Domestic Life Fiction #76 in Contemporary Romance (Books)
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