What We Keep
A Novel
Published on 15. December 2010
272 pages
978-0-307-76343-3 (ISBN)
Description
"BERG KNOWS THE HEARTS OF HER CHARACTERS INTIMATELY, showing them with compassion, humor, and an illuminating generosity."
-The Seattle Times
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in 35 years. During the long hours of her flight, she returns in memory to the summer when she turned 12 and her family turned inside out. . . . What We Keep is about ties that are buried but not broken, wounds that are dressed but never heal, and love that changes form but somehow survives."
-USA Today
"COMPELLING . . . Reading [this] book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul."
-Charleston Post and Courier
"TOUCHING . . . WHAT WE KEEP IS SOMETHING OF VALUE."
-San Antonio Express-News
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Berg's Once Upon a Time, There Was You.
-The Seattle Times
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in 35 years. During the long hours of her flight, she returns in memory to the summer when she turned 12 and her family turned inside out. . . . What We Keep is about ties that are buried but not broken, wounds that are dressed but never heal, and love that changes form but somehow survives."
-USA Today
"COMPELLING . . . Reading [this] book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul."
-Charleston Post and Courier
"TOUCHING . . . WHAT WE KEEP IS SOMETHING OF VALUE."
-San Antonio Express-News
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Berg's Once Upon a Time, There Was You.
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Elizabeth Berg
What We Keep
Book
01/2002
Ballantine Books Inc.
€26.43
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05/1999
Ballantine Books Inc.
€17.90
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Elizabeth Berg
What We Keep
Book
04/1998
Random House USA Inc
€41.16
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Person
Elizabeth Berg's first novel, Durable Goods, was called "a gem" by Richard Bausch. Her other novels include Talk Before Sleep, Range of Motion, The Pull of the Moon, and Joy School. In 1997, she won the NEBA award for fiction. She lives in Massachusetts.
