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Book Review of Black and Blue

Black and Blue
Black and Blue
Author: Anna Quindlen
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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In Black and Blue, Fran Benedetto tells a spell-binding story: how at nineteen she fell in love with Bobby Benedetto, how their passionate marriage became a nightmare, why she stayed, and what happened on the night she finally decided to run away with her ten-year-old son and start a new life under a new name. Living in fear in Florida-yet with increasing confidence, freedom, and hope-Fran unravels the complex threads of family, identity, and desire that shape a woman's life, even as she begins to create a new one. As Fran starts to heal from the pain of the past, she almost believes she has escaped it-that Bobby Benedetto will not find her and again provoke the complex combustion between them of attraction and destruction, lust and love.