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The Rest of Her Life
by Laura Moriarty
Published in 2007
This is ARC (Advance Reading Copy). I reviewed this book for Elle magazine’s summer reading last year. This is a book which spoke to me as a mother, but it’s just one good book that will speak to you whether you’re a mother or not. I started reading it and it stays with me even as I load my laundry, and wash the dishes. It hangs in the back of my mind as I cook meals, and shop for groceries. It just stays with me until I can get back to it. I think you’ll be glad to read this book. It’s not my usual romantic fiction, but I’m really glad to branch out of my reading cocoon for this book.
Book Excerpt When she imagined the interior of the Suburban in those final moments, she pictured the dog as a terrier mix, tan, for some reason, like Benji. Leigh never actually saw the dog. She didnât even know about the dog and its involvement in the accident until much later, even though when the accident happened, she was just seven blocks away, teaching eighth grade English at the junior high, as she had been almost every school day for more than a decade. She was seven blocks away, and she had no idea it had happened. Just after the ambulance arrived, Kara used her cell phone to call her fatherâs office on campus. Gary wasnât there, but the call had gone back to the English Department, and the secretary, hearing the distress in the callerâs voice, had tracked him down in a faculty meeting on a different floor. Gary told Leigh later that when he got on the phone, he didnât recognize their daughterâs voice. She was crying hard, and it sounded as if she were shivering, which, he remembered thinking, made no sense on such a warm day. When he finally understood, he gave the phone to the secretary and ran across the neatly trimmed lawns of campus to the parking lot in his tie and jacket. He had not run so far and so quickly for many years, and when he finally got to his car, he had to stand still for a moment to catch his breath, his hand pressed hard against his heart.
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