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Rating  - Very good read!
I find Sue Miller to be a gifted writer whose elegance of phrasing and story development is consistently brilliant. This book was, for me, a delight to read and very much in keeping with that standard. In reading some of the reviews, one would think that the standard for a worthy book should include the development of only highly evolved, heroic characters. I found the main characters in this book to be deeply flawed but compassionately drawn...and realistic. I found Delia to be a compelling character whose inner life was beautifully explored for the reader in these pages. Real women ARE like Delia! Some struggle and attach in ways that are not always politically correct (pardon the pun). I love the way Sue Miller writes dialogue: efficient and real. One feels as though present to an actual conversation. In this book I found that I marked at least ten pages which contained lines which deeply touched me and I found beautiful....for instance, when Delia watches her grown son, Evan, during a brief visit home: "And yet the love she felt for him was unchanged, was based on who he'd been and who he still was to her. This is how it is with your children, she thought. You hold all the versions of them there ever were simultaneously in your heart."
I loved this book. I thank Sue Miller for the visit into another woman's life via such beautiful craft and skill in writing.
Rating  - Hated this book - it would get 0 stars except they force you to select at least one.
I found no redeeming qualities in either of the female characters n this book. I can determine no reason why anyone gave this book positive reviews. The younger woman bases her value on her body, sex and what other people of her. She's sneaky, jealous and shallow. The older woman hangs in there far to long and then when the author has the chance to give her a voice at the very end after she finally leaves him, she doesn't. Not only are the characters weak and uninspiring, the author wastes your time with a book with absolutely no message/moral. It's a waste of time to read and I'm annoyed that I even spent money on purchasing it. No stars.
Rating  - Boring-Boring-Boring
This book was marketed very well and I honestly thought it would be great! But no!!! I couldn't find a bit of sympathy for Meri and I was totally frustrated with Delia's continual desire for a husband with the wandering eye. The story is contrived and boring. I ended up skimming through much of it just to get to the ending and then to find out it's not shocking at all. What a waste of 6 hours.
Rating - Chick book for sure
I have vision issues--and I listen to books now, not read them. But the reader's plummy tone quickly put me in chick book territory. Then when they named the kid Asa, I knew this was way too cute. Don't they look at possible nicknames, these book characters? Well, the mother was Meri (this was spelled out in the text). That explains a lot. She's not that Meri. Oh--and a woman putting up with a philanderer, gosh, that's new. And then she gets to be his nurse, with all her evolved love and everything. My dream. Sometimes I am so glad I am not evolved.
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