Letting Go

by Pamela Morsi

Book Overview

Forced to move in with her mother, a man-hungry serial bride, after her husband dies, leaving her broke and homeless, fortysomething Ellen Jameson, her daughter Amber, and her granddaughter Jet, must come to terms with their new situation as they attempt to forge their own destinies.. Original.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551666561
• ISBN13: 9781551666563
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Loved it!

This book made me a Morsi fan! If this is not her best book, I have a lot of great reading ahead of me! This book shows how a family can lose touch and how they can come together again. Bad things can happen and it takes a family a long time to overcome a death in the family, if they ever overcome! Relationships take work. Morsi showed several generations of strong females in one family making the best of things. I loved it and highly recommend this book!

Excellent Read!

I loved this book! I have also read Doing Good by the same author but liked Letting Go much better. The characters were very interesting, including the minor characters, which is sometimes rare. This book held my interest throughout and continually surprised me. I highly recommend it!

A Very Good Read!

I really enjoyed this book. One of the best contemporary women's books I have read in a long time. Couldn't put it down. Interesting to see 4 generations of women trying to get along in life in some troubled times. Complex and delightful charachters. It made me laugh and it made me cry. I could relate to each charachter in a different way. Made me see the importance of family and family love. Highly Recomended!!! Can't wait to read more of Pamela Morsi's books. This was my first one.

deep character study

Though five years ago her beloved husband Paul died, Ellen Jameson still carries his ashes in an urn, as she cannot let go even though her world has ended. Her suburban friends ignore her, the family accounting business went bankrupt when Paul the CPA passed away, and now she sits on the brink of becoming homeless. She moves to nearby San Antonio seeking an accounting clerk job and saves money by living in the house of her mother Wilma. Also moving in to her mom's house is Ellen's party-going daughter Amber and granddaughter Jet. Four generations of women share a house whose ownership is being contested in the courts.Ellen finds work at Roper's Accounting home of "The Cowboys of Taxes". Amber is good at her mall job, but prefers to party. Wilma watches the well-behaved active three-year-old Jet, but struggles to keep up especially pulling her oxygen tank with her. On the brink of homelessness, Wilma decides Ellen must marry with the only prospect her daughter's employer even if he is more her age. Wilma and Jet begin matchmaking as four generations of women try to survive deep in a heartless Texas.Though not filled with any action, fans of deep character studies will want to read LETTING GO a strong look at four women living, loving, and suffering together under one roof. Each member of the quartet has a distinguished personality though Jet seems too mature. Pamela Morsi provides an insightful look at moving on while still remembering a lost loved one that will leave her audience grateful for her graceful talent.Harriet Klausner

Many things happening in this book. Brisk pace.

Ellen Jameson's eternal optimism is severely challenged lately. Five years after her husband's early death to cancer, she has had to sell their home and move in with her mother, Wilma, her own daughter, Amber, and granddaughter, Jet, in tow. Whilel Jet is a charmer, Amber has a chronically bad attitude and is struggling between independence and neediness. Wilma believes in serial monogamy and may be turned out of her home before too long. Her last husband did not change his will before his death, and now his children want the house Wilma is entitled to. Ellen does manage to find a job, and her mother thinks that marrying the boss would solve all her daughter's problems. However, when Wilma goes to play matchmaker, she finds the boss more attractive to herself than to Ellen. Amber is dealing with problems at work, wanting to move out and abandon her child, and a sudden reappearance of an old friend who could very well turn out to be more than an old friend. She also has to deal with the prejuidices she herself harbors about her mixed race child and the ones she imagines are against them. ***** Of course, all of that is only the tip of the iceberg. There are a few assorted other problems, health crises, and the kitchen sink to face before the last page is turned. Ms. Morsi has long been a talented writer, but with her debut in contemporary women's fiction, she has truly come into her own. You will laugh through the tears reading this book. Wilma is a hoot, plain and simple. I wish she was young enough to star in a continuing series. Anyone who has faced a life full of changes and challeges will sympathize so much with Ellen that at times the novel will hit too close to home. Yet, in her triumph over the odds, you will find affirmation and hope. ***** Reviewed by Amanda Killgore.