The Rest of Her Life

The Rest of Her Life
by Laura Moriarty

The Rest of Her Life
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Author: Laura Moriarty
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-07
ISBN: 1401302718
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Hyperion

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Book Review: It could happen to anyone
Summary: 5 Stars

What a great book for a bookclub that likes to discuss what if situations because here is a story that could happen to anyone. A teenage driver kills a pedestrian accidently and how it affects the whole family. It showed the strains of a mother/daughter relationship during the teenage years so well.
In fact there were so many strains of this plot that could be discussed in full. It was unputdownable. A simple enough plot, a situation that anyone of us, God forbid, could experience.
Good characters in books should be real and here they were. They were also humane which is comforting to a reader. Anyone who likes Jodi Picioult will like this book though I thought it was a more grown-up read.

Summary of The Rest of Her Life

In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another.

Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy -- the effects of which not only divide Leigh's family, but polarize the entire community. We see the story from Leigh's perspective, as she grapples with the hard reality of what her daughter has done and the devastating consequences her actions have on the family of another teenage girl in town, all while struggling to protect Kara in the face of rising public outcry.

Like the best works of Jane Hamilton, Jodi Picoult, and Alice Sebold, Laura Moriarty's The Rest of Her Life is a novel of complex moral dilemma, filled with nuanced characters and a page-turning plot that makes readers ask themselves, "What would I do?"

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