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|pages=336
|publisher=Simon & Schuster Ltd
|date=September 2007
|isbn=978-0743293280
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Stories can move you in unexpected ways... they can make you smile, or be sad, inspire you or worry you about the way the world turns and what that does to those of us who struggle to hold on. Very occasionally, they can grab you by the throat and force you to stop and think. To question all of your beliefs about what is right, and wrong... about what is even real... and can we, ever, have a hope of knowing.
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|comment= It has been so long since I read a book I could get lost in; where I could live in the pages without a realization stopping me: "oh, the author repeats names in dialogue too often" - "the author keeps switching POV's within a scene" - that is, a book without glaring flaws in the mechanics of writing. It amazes me that people put up with so much drivel and even 'critics' praise them. But I am glad I picked up Maribeth Fischer's novel "the Life You Longed For" and glad the theme intrigued me. I'm halfway through and not once has my reading momentum been slowed by errors. It is a wonderfully written book, with a great, slowly winding plot that draws me in. Plus it makes me think a lot about the bigger issues in life. If my momentum is slowed at all, it is to jot down my own ideas that hers inspire. Kudos, Maribeth, you are the best I have read since Dennis LaHane's Mystic River. I'm a medical interpreter and I plan to encourage my colleagues at the Children's Hospital to read it as well.
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