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Summary: Leavitt grabs your heart and doesn't let go.
Review: This is a compelling story that grapples with raw human emotions as Molly's life plummets from a nearly-perfect life to one filled with life-threatening medical emergencies and a forgotten past. We watch as Leavitt's strongly-drawn characters begin to unravel and then find redemption. A beautifully-told tale that touched my heart!
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Summary: What a generous novel!
Review: I just finished reading Coming Back to Me, and am glowing with the satisfaction of having spent time with such a heartfelt book, such fully realized characters. It will be hard to say goodbye to Molly and Gary and Suzanne and Otis and their quirky, ultimately caring, neighbors. Love and life radiate off every page of this book; Caroline Leavitt writes directly from the heart of the human experience, directly to the heart of the reader.
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Summary: Very good contemporary relationship fiction
Review: Molly and Gary are the ideal couple--totally devoted to each other and looking forward to the birth of their first child. But after Molly's C-section, something goes wrong, and she ends up with numerous surgeries and an uncertain prognosis.Desperate for help with newborn Otis, Gary turns to Molly's estranged sister, Suzanne. As Leavitt slowly unfolds the stories of these three adults, she shows readers the possibilities for change and forgiveness. This is a very good novel, extremely difficult to put down. I docked it one star only because I thought that the reconciliation of Suzanne's difficulties came a bit too easily and her relationship with Gary was a bit too cliche. But it is true, Leavitt is a writer who exists comfortably in the ranks of Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller.
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Summary: A wonderful story
Review: This is the first book I've read by Ms. Leavitt, but it won't be the last. I'll admit it took me a bit longer to get hooked by the story than most books I end up loving, but once I did, I couldn't bear to put it down until I'd finished it. Gary, Molly, and Suzanne are terrific characters -- completely three dimensional and real. At first, I heartily disliked Suzanne, but that's because I was only seeing her from Molly's point of view. Once Suzanne came on stage and we got inside her head, she became someone I understood and sympathized with. This is, quite simply, a great love story -- not just the love between a man and woman, but about the love shared by sisters, mothers and children, fathers and children -- the whole spectrum of family relationships. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Coming Back to Me
Review: My local book clubis reading this book, based on the review in the New Yorker magazine. I was thrilled because I am a big fan of Leavitt's and loved her last book LIVING OTHER LIVES. This book was even better! The characters were so alive,the story so intelligent and rivetting. I just didn't want the book to end!
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Summary: So easy to read, you can skip huge portions
Review: Such a simple writing style, that you can skim huge portions and still get the entire superficial story. Not much depth at all. There were so many characters introduced; yet, no in depth follow-up. For example, their mother up and moves to Florida and we never hear about her again (until a brief comment about her death). All the neighbors commented upon, yet we never got to know them. And the cover dared to comment this author with Jane Hamilton, omg, LOL
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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: I was up until four in the morning last night reading this book. Absolutely fascinating with characters so rich and real, I ached for them, cheered them on, and wanted to be their best friends. (Heck, I felt as if I WERE their best friends.) Loved the writing style and my wife started reading the book this morning and I can't get her to put it down either, which isn't a good thing since she has to go to work!
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Summary: Yuck
Review: Too much dysfunctionality with hardly a point to be made.
The one star if for an engaging writing style.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: COMING BACK TO ME by Caroline Leivitt is a heartfelt story about two people, Gary and Molly drawn to marriage by true love. It's a marriage of happiness and fulfillment that only gets better with the birth of their first child Otis. Then suddenly, three days after Otis is born, Molly falls deathly ill. A medical anomaly that sends her fighting for her life through various surgical procedures and a coma. Her diagnosis is uncertain. The doctors can't say if she will live or die. Gary finds himself in a new position of responsibility and loneliness. Devoting himself to his newborn child and the hope that Molly will again be with him someday, he does his best to hold everything together. Then he looses his job and life suddenly takes an even steeper spiral down hill. With no family of his own except Molly and the new baby, his only hope is to find Molly's. Only he knows nothing of her family either. Both of them experienced painful childhoods and neither ever discussed their families. Still, with no where else to turn, Gary begins investigating Molly's past in search of help grateful to discover Suzanne, Molly's wild sister. Through Otis Suzanne sees the need for change and comes through when she's needed most. COMING BACK TO ME is a story of the ultimate love, survival, and the reuniting of family. The characters are so well created and explained that you feel as if you are a part of them. Your heart goes out to Gary and Otis, you cry and feel deep hope for Molly's recovery and you rejoice when they are brought together again. Each and every page hits close to home.
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Summary: Coming Back to this Book
Review: I stayed up all night reading this book. The characters gripped me from the first page and I couldn't stop. Ms. Leavitt has a masterful sense of structure, of building a novel. Tragedy and hope intermix so delicately here. I'm very impressed
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