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1st Bookclub Selection
fuer June 2007

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Bestselling author Macomber (There's Something About Christmas)
explores the intricate dynamics of family with sincerity and wit in
this well-crafted novel. At 50, Seattleite Susannah Nelson is
unsatisfied with her American dream: she's got a devoted husband, two
teenage children and a rewarding career teaching fifth grade. She's
also got a recently deceased father, a mother increasingly unable to
care for herself,and recurring dreams about her high school sweetheart,
Jake Presley, who disappeared around the time of the death of her
brother, Doug, 30 years ago. Returning to her hometown of Colville,
Wash., over the summer to look after her mother, Susannah has an
ulterior motive: to find Jake. As she orchestrates her mother's rocky
move to a nursing home and tries to keep track of her household
(particularly her petulant daughter, recently taken with shiftless
townie Troy Nance), Susannah picks up Jake's trail with the help of a
private investigator and a childhood friend. As tension mounts between
Susannah and her family, she uncovers the shocking details of Jake's
disappearance—and of Doug's death—and ultimately faces her long-buried
resentment toward her father. Macomber excels at detailing family
conflict and the resulting tangle of regret and anger, but her
God's-eye-view keeps her characters at arm's length, showing readers
their emotional complexity rather than providing a view from within.
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