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I'd never heard of Ann Hood before I met her at a writers workshop. I asked her which book I should read. The book is set in two different eras and I could not fathom how the characters in these two times would connect. The connection, when it was finally revealed, proved to be one of those most satisfying aspects of literature in which an aspect of the book comes around again and again. (Jun Do's tattoo in THE ORPHAN MASTERS SON, for example). The prose was very readable. I really loved Claire and felt so sorry for her plight as a woman in the 1960s--and in a true pickle. Read if for yourself and see what that might be. I like thrillers better than book club novels. I was not expecting to like it as much as I did. A great read.
Wix Simon AKA Wix Diamond
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The Obituary Writer A Novel Ann Hood 9780393346770 Books Reviews

Oh my gosh, what a good book !
It's told by 2 separate women ,one from the early 1920's, the other from the 1960's . It's very easy to follow, but at first ,you don't see a connection between the two, so you wonder how the book will weave the stories together .
It talked quite a bit about the role a housewife had in the 60's and what her expectations were . I've often pondered whether life was better then , when people stayed married because they made vows ,and tried to work through problems, or whether it's better now when people seem to feel the freedom to get out of a marriage sooner ,without the stigma of being a "divorced person " ,like it was so long ago .
It's a story of grief , of many different forms and types of grief, of marriages gone bad, and whether to work on repairing them or move on .
It's the story of holding onto the past ,when you might be happier looking into your future .
Just a wonderful book . My kind of story. It leaves you with an important life lesson .
This is a story of hope. We begin with Claire, a wife and mother who does her best to be everything she was brought up to be. While she goes through the motions of her life -caring for her daughter and her husband, maintaining a clean and comfortable home, being the perfect social hostess - she feels there is something lacking in her life. She realizes that she needs something more to make her feel complete and, like so many other women of the time, she focuses her attention on the upcoming inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the promise of a bright future for the United States. Claire identifies with Jackie Kennedy and like her contemporaries emulates everything about the First Lady-elect. But at one of her crowd's dinner parties she meets Miles who will give Claire the excitement and attention she feels she deserves.

Going back to 1908 we meet Vivien, a single independent-minded young woman who takes on chance on a handsome man she meets quite by accident while shopping in San Francisco. They have dinner and end in each other's arms. David is married but that poses no problem for either he or Vivien. She becomes his paramour and they soon realize that they are meant to be together. But fate steps in and on a morning in 1908 Vivien bids David a sleepy goodbye as he leaves for his law office; when she is finally awakened by the rattling of dishes (she believes it is their Chinese housekeeper) she soon becomes aware that the rattling is more than she thought. The San Francisco Earthquake has struck, causing chaos and mass destruction in the city. Vivien's thoughts fly to David but who can she contact to find out if he's alive? She spends the next fifteen years living in the hope that David is alive and that she will find him.

I liked this book and found the characters to be interesting and in their own ways provocative. Although they live in different eras the two women are still alike - each searching for something to make them feel complete and hoping that what they need is just around the next corner. We follow their lives in a parallel manner, hoping for their happiness and somehow realizing that they just might find what they need when its right in front of them.

This was an easy read and would make a wonderful book to take on a business trip or vacation. It held my interest and I liked the plot twist towards the end. What made this book a winner for me was the spot-on descriptions of the 1960s - I won't reiterate them here as so many other reviewers have already done that. But for this child of the 60s it was a throw-back to my early teen years.
I really enjoyed this book. I had read The Italian Wife by Ann Hood, and I HATED that book! Since that was the first Ann Hood book that I had read, I decided to give the author a chance to redeem herself by reading a second work. If you're a reader who guesses the plot twists fairly easily, this book won't really keep you in suspense. BUT, if you just like a good story about characters living in different historical times, this is very enjoyable. I thought the character development was acceptable, and I liked getting to know the two main ladies of the book. You have to be willing to overlook some pretty big proofreading goofs, but I definitely thought it was worth it!
This story is haunting. I read this book several years ago, it has captured me and I cannot let it go. The timeline, the 1960s, when I was a child, we're like timetravel, so accurate are Ann Hood's desctpitions. San Francisco and the 1906 earthquake, completely resonated with me. I spent all of my winter vacations in San Francisco until my late teens; in my 30s I moved to San Francisco. Ann Hood's talented development of the characters, her ability to capture the essence of each era, and the spirit of SF, which draw the reader in, are inexplicably amazing. I want to crawl into this book and live along side the characters. This is truly one of my all time favorite books.
I admit that I started this book a little over a year ago . The sudden death of my little girl required that I walk away from itl. After a year of mourning and another year for healing, I found this forgotten book and read it in two sittings.
This book is finely written, with a soft deep seduction of words that gentle you along the path of the unfathomable, granting love and loss each their rightful place in the universe of our lives both shaping us to be more than we thought we could be, with more to offer to those who cross our paths _ in our own time, in our own way.
I'd never heard of Ann Hood before I met her at a writers workshop. I asked her which book I should read. The book is set in two different eras and I could not fathom how the characters in these two times would connect. The connection, when it was finally revealed, proved to be one of those most satisfying aspects of literature in which an aspect of the book comes around again and again. (Jun Do's tattoo in THE ORPHAN MASTERS SON, for example). The prose was very readable. I really loved Claire and felt so sorry for her plight as a woman in the 1960s--and in a true pickle. Read if for yourself and see what that might be. I like thrillers better than book club novels. I was not expecting to like it as much as I did. A great read.
Wix Simon AKA Wix Diamond
@WixDIamond