The Things We Do for Love: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780345520807
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Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her tiny Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family tree’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.
Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-ancient. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women—one who longs for a child and the additional who longs for a mother’s like—will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined.
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This is a poignant drama about the fee we pay so willingly for like. “Angie longs for a baby dauhter. Lauren longs to know a mother’s like.” Angela returns to her hometown of West Bend, 120 miles from Seattle to help her father reopen his restaurant. Colin, the journalist, drives her there in his BMW intno the Pacific Northwest.
In fact, he is deserting her to a fate she didn’t forsee. Not having been able to produce a baby, which they had so wanted for a long time, he is ‘leaving’ her. As she adapted to this change in circumstances, she finds a young pregnant girl, Lauren, there and decides that by taking her in and adopting the baby, she will have at last received a bit of her dream, albeit it lacking Conlan.
“She got in the car, heading north on Driftwood and establish Lauren with red and inflated eyes at the bus stop.” She changed what would have been her child’s room into an oasis for Lauren. “The leftovers of her marriage were all here.” She reminises as her life took a sharp right hand turn. Conlan comes on a visit and sees the baby things; “I brought everything to the cottage for Lauren.” She’d entered into a Faustian bargan and it would take them all on a terrible journey; at the end of it, broken hearts would be on the side of the road.
Her lost dreams may at last come right, but at what expense. This tale is written with compassion and conviction. I wish I could have establish an Angie in 1975 and I might have had my ’small girl’ to help me in my older years. The boys won’t.
For sensitive women, no matter what age, the things they will do for like of a particular man is beyond description. She needed a baby to get her life back in gear with the man she loved. Lauren had an alcoholic mother and a boyfriend who had insisted on abortion. Once you have had one, you will be forever guilty of killing a name you might have loved.
Adoptive families like Angie’s and Lauren’s can find plenty of practical information in books, magazines, and on the Web. Charles Dickens wrote about Small Em’ly who was adopted in DAVID COPPERFIELD. Barbara Kinsolver, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Joanna Trollope, Gretchen Moran Laskas, and William Kowalski have written novels about adoption of unwanted chidren. The leader, Kristin Hannah, is married and has a son — but, like me, she must have permanently wanted a daughter. She was born in Southern California the same year as Jeff and now lives in Washington state.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
My library has a cart out in front where you can pick up and drop off a book lacking checking it out- that’s where I selected this one up and I sure am glad I didn’t pay for it. I thought this book was dreadful. It was formulaic, moralistic, and full of caricatures and stereotypes. Kristin Hannah really missed an opportunity to write a genuine book about the pain and frustration of infertility. I have never read any of her books before this one and will not again.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I flew thru the first 200 pages of this book. I was so delighted with Ms. Hannah’s writing; I could not place this book down. Then the formulaic melodrama kicked in. I was so disappointed that this leader resorted to the usual drama.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is one of persons feel excellent tales. I’m not one of persons to tell you practically the whole tale to spoil it but I will tell you it was fantastic book and I didn’t want it to end!!! On Mystic Lake and Between Sisters are additional fantastic books by Hannah!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
My first experience with Kristin Hannah was On Mystic Lake (20-star book!!) I can’t say that this book was as excellent, but it is certainly a 5 star book. I have been looking for an leader that will engross me in the lives and plot of a book — I establish her. I establish myself thinking about these people all day. This was a fantastic book. (I would tell you about the plot but others have done so better than I could.) Delight in.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5