Surrender, Dorothy - Meg Wolitzer

Surrender, Dorothy

ByMeg Wolitzer

  • Release Date: 2010-08-24
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4
4
From 26 Ratings

Description

From the New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a “devastatingly on target” (Elle) novel about a young woman's accidental death and its effect on her family and friends.

For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night's drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara—"held aloft and shimmering for years"—finally lands.

Mining the intricate relationship between love and mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman—her mother or her closest friends? Depicting the aftermath of Sara's shocking death with piercing humor and shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother and a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.

Reviews

  • Pretty good, but what about all the typos?

    3
    By marileetherapy
    Not my favorite of her books, but a decent summer read. I was appalled by all of the typos on the electronic version… Somebody needs to pay attention and clean this up!
  • An Interesting Read

    4
    By TLCESQ
    Just started back to work full-time and needed a book for my hour commutes. This fit the bill. Enjoyed the story, despite the tragedy of it, and thought the characters were well developed, although a little self-centered. But surviving the first real death of a close friend takes its measure in many forms, and they are well illuminated in this story.

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