The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty. This book had a very good review in Kirkus Reviews. It is a follow-up from her debut novel The Center of Everything. This book follows a family following a fatal car accident
The group as a whole seemed to like the book. We agreed the main character (mother: Leigh), was a bit socially challenged but once we read the back story, it was clear, she did not receive the parenting that her own children received. All the characters were finely drawn, although I thought the father less so. Perhaps because we were reading from the perspective of the lead character whom we all agreed was fairly self-absorbed. This was a very interesting character study of a family a tragedy that effects an entire town.
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We talked a little about the strained relationship between the mother and the daughter, and between the father and the son. Perhaps both were related to the parents looking to see themselves in their children - the mom seeing what she wanted to have had when she was the daughter, the dad not seeing what he had (athletic, etc.) when he was the son.
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