Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller - Book Review

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• I have been reading this book for two or three weeks now and it’s called Lost in the forest by Sue Miller. Sue Miller was born in Chicago 1943. She has written alot of best selling novels and two of them have been made into motion picture. She always seems to write about tragedies and family relations and especially relations between mother and daughter. I couldn’t find anything really interesting about this author though she is a very known and successfull one. She raised her child on her own and in an interview she told that due to those circumstances she became and skillfull writer and experienced. • This is a story about a family whose lives get torn apart due to a tragedy that occurs. John the loving family father and stepfather to Daisy and Emily dies in a car accident. His sudden death changes everything. Eva the widow struggles with emotional outrages while Daisy the stepdaughter tries to understand her feelings and her biological father Mark attempts to repair his damaged relationship with Daisy.Theo the three years old boy think that his father will be back from heaven at any moment and Emily the oldest daughter tries to keep the family together This is the story where we follow three lives out of their perspective and their own problems. The story takes place in a beautifull wine county in California. They do not mention any specific year when the setting is but its clear that it’s modern time • This is a book about normal people with their normal problems so the outcome of that is that the characters acts normal and seems to me very lifelike. At several points in the book the reader or at least I feel that I’ve been put in the exactly same situation as the characters. You seem to understand their feelings and actions better than people in real life. Sure, the characters and their actions are very obvious but in some way the writer
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