Surprise for Me

A surprise that I would finish this book. The theme is a young woman dealing with the sudden loss if her much loved husband. Death. Grief. Angst--I usually avoid these topics as they often become maudlin in the story telling. Home Away From Home did not do this as Lorna J. Cook tells the first-person story of Anna during the year of her emotional and physical wandering. Anna cannot bring herself to return to the house she shared with Dill, and lives with friends and various other places. She interacts with other people who are grieving for different reasons and circumstances, and gains insight from them. Excellent language and writing. Cook’s web site (It's done in FLASH, which for me, since I'm on dial-up, took forever to load.)