description: A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife.In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one beautiful, idyllic year--into a life that was bohemian and romantic, living under an assumed name in a rambling group house in Cambridge. It was a time of limitless possibility, but it ended in a single instant when Jo returned home one night to find her best friend lying dead in a pool of blood on the living room floor.
language: English
title: While I Was Gone
titlecomplete: While I Was Gone
characters: Daniel Becker, Cass Becker, Jean Bennett, Joey Becker, Dana Jablonski, Sadie Becker, Eli Mayhew
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Book Club, Drama, Adult, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 59733
places: Massachusetts
publisher: Ballantine Books