Jane's House

by Robert Kimmel Smith

Book Overview

"The most moving, beautiful, realistic book about loving, losing, picking up the pieces and getting on with life that I have read in a long time, maybe ever." Judy Blume

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688012558
• ISBN13: 9780688012557
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.

Customer Reviews

You'll learn how to hold on and how to let go

It's incredibly unfair losing someone you thought would be there forever even when you know that forever has a time limit. What makes 'Jane's House' so good is that it shows all the struggles. Life still has to be lived when you're hurting. Laundry still has to be done and dinner still has to be made, and people fall in love even as they grieve for the one who went away. Kimmel shows the struggle each family member faces as they go on with their lives and shows how the 'new' wife has to struggle with the one who has departed even though they've never met. The inevitable comparisons - both good and bad, and the guilt that goes with comparing. You'll laugh, and cry, and swear at every central character as they all go through the tunnel and come out triumpant on the other side