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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Marital tension; brief adult intimacy
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
The identity loss that comes from a marriage-centered life, discovering personal ambition at midlife, the complicated love of a long partnership
What this book is about
Elizabeth Shore has spent her marriage following her husband Jack, a sports anchor, wherever his career took them. When he gets a dream job in New York, she goes too — leaving behind their Pacific Northwest home and the people who knew her. Alone in the city, Elizabeth has to rediscover who she is outside of the roles of wife and mother she's occupied for twenty years. Kristin Hannah writes a quiet, real novel about a midlife woman finding herself for the first time.
Notes for sensitive readers
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marital strain and identity rediscovery
midlife themes throughout
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