True to what I fully intend to do, I have finished one book for the month of August!
Hurray!
I decided to read Emily Griffin’s Heart of the Matter, since I loved all the books I’ve read so far – Something Blue, Something Borrowed, Love the One You’re With.
Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatric surgeon. Despite her own mother’s warnings, Tessa has recently given up her career to focus on her family and the pursuit of domestic happiness. From the outside, she seems destined to live a charmed life.
Valerie Anderson is an attorney and single mother to six-year-old Charlie–a boy who has never known his father. After too many disappointments, she has given up on romance–and even to some degree, friendships–believing that it is always safer not to expect too much.
Although both women live in the same Boston suburb, the two have relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children. But one night, a tragic accident causes their lives to converge in ways no one could have imagined.
In alternating, pitch-perfect points of view, Emily Giffin creates a moving, luminous story of good people caught in untenable circumstances. Each being tested in ways they never thought possible. Each questioning everything they once believed. And each ultimately discovering what truly matters most.
My thoughts:
I often wonder how it is to read a book in all shades of grey, knowing that in the real world, there really is no concept of black and white. It seems so wrong to put the blame solely on one person when in the end, all the main characters lose, equally tragic for everyone. I also can’t help but ache and feel the pain of having your trust betrayed, since I am married myself.