Wendy H. (donkeycheese) -
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I'm sure you've heard it thousands of times "Parenting is the hardest job you'll ever have." It's true though. I never realized parenting would be so hard. I have teenagers - what I wouldn't give to go back to when they were little. It doesn't get any easier, you just face different challenges.
In The Sunshine When She's Gone, Goodman takes us on a journey through two individuals as they struggle with their new bundle of joy and responsibility. Veronica is still depressed after giving birth six months earlier to baby Clara. No matter what John does, it's not enough. So he decides to let her sleep in one morning and take Clara for a walk.
Before he realizes what he has done, he and Clara are on a plane bound to Barbados. When Veronica awakens, she figures John took Clara to his moms. But as the days pass and the two of them consistently miss one another's calls, they begin to realize what they missed when they were single, when they were childless and they make some surprising, not always sound, decisions.
Told through both points of view, alternating back and forth, The Sunshine When She's Gone is riveting. I wasn't sure how it was going to play out, but it was very interesting to see how Veronica and John perceived things and what the consequences would be for their actions. A debut novel, Goodman has penned a solid novel and I look forward to reading what she writes next.
In The Sunshine When She's Gone, Goodman takes us on a journey through two individuals as they struggle with their new bundle of joy and responsibility. Veronica is still depressed after giving birth six months earlier to baby Clara. No matter what John does, it's not enough. So he decides to let her sleep in one morning and take Clara for a walk.
Before he realizes what he has done, he and Clara are on a plane bound to Barbados. When Veronica awakens, she figures John took Clara to his moms. But as the days pass and the two of them consistently miss one another's calls, they begin to realize what they missed when they were single, when they were childless and they make some surprising, not always sound, decisions.
Told through both points of view, alternating back and forth, The Sunshine When She's Gone is riveting. I wasn't sure how it was going to play out, but it was very interesting to see how Veronica and John perceived things and what the consequences would be for their actions. A debut novel, Goodman has penned a solid novel and I look forward to reading what she writes next.
