Open House by Elizabeth BergOn the back cover:
A Woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.
Samantha’s husband has left her, after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany’s, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her eleven year old son.
Her eccentric mother tries to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money. To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders.
The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful.
A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness.
In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember – and reclaim – the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage.
Open House is a love story about what can blossom between a man and a woman, and within a woman herself.
My take so far:
I am about half way through this book, it is incredibly short (at least for me – only 239 pages) and a pretty easy read.
So far it has been pretty sad, sad to see a woman going through a divorce when she did not want one and is forced to deal with everything that brings with it. But based on the book description it looks like the good / happier stuff is coming up.
This is an Oprah’s book club book from 2000, so far I have not had many misses with her book choices.
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