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Author:
Hood, Ann
Narrator:
Gilbert, Tavia
Published:
Blackstone Publishing 2013
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From bestselling author Ann Hood comes a sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras.

On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief but also begins to understand the devastation of her own terrible loss. The surprising connection between these two women will change Claire's life in unexpected and extraordinary ways.

Part literary mystery and part love story, The Obituary Writer examines expectations of marriage and love, the roles of wives and mothers, and the emotions of grief, regret, and hope.

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Street Date:
03/04/2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781481573689

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Ann Hood. (2013). The Obituary Writer. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

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Ann Hood. 2013. The Obituary Writer. Blackstone Publishing.

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Ann Hood, The Obituary Writer. Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

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Ann Hood. The Obituary Writer. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

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Part literary mystery and part love story, The Obituary Writer examines expectations of marriage and love, the roles of wives and mothers, and the emotions of grief, regret, and hope.

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Part literary mystery and part love story, The Obituary Writer examines expectations of marriage and love, the roles of wives and mothers, and the emotions of...

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