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Book Review of The Senator's Wife

The Senator's Wife
The Senator's Wife
Author: Sue Miller
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 3


This is a good read for mature women. Worth quoting: "She thought this might be the momentwhen the grown children swept in and irresistibly took over your life. When you could no longer say no, because it was so clear that all the things you thought of as belonging to you were in the process of becoming theirs - their possessions, and, of course, their heavy burdens, too: your life, your spouse's life, your illness, his illness, your death. The moment when you owed them something, when you had to give way, out of a kind of fairness to them; and then also because you just didn't have the strength left anymore to fight."