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What to Keep: A Novel, Rachel Cline, Good Book

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Author: Rachel ClineFormat: Softcover
Publisher: Ballantine BooksISBN-10: 0812971795
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-13: 9780812971798
Category: Divorce & SeparationPublication Year: 2005
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Denny Roman is an actress whose parents have always failed her since their divorce, when she was 10. Fortunately, she has had family friend Maureen to fall back on. Maureen is a therapist who has led the kind of unconventional life that Denny admires--and who dies young. At 37, Denny is trying to cope with her mother (and her much younger new husband), her father (and HIS new wife), Maureen's bereft son--and her own career as an actress, which has just taken an unexpected upward swing.

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Denny Roman at twelve: a midwestern girl with a clueless family, a bit part in the school play, a crush on the drama teacher, and concerns about frontal development. Her mother and father, divorced neuroscientists, are raising her with benign neglect. The family is virtually run by an agoraphobe named Maureen, who has a taxi fleet and a superorganized and compassionate method of managing other people’s lives, especially Denny’s.

Denny Roman at twenty-six: jets home from Hollywood for the weekend and lands in the marital minefield of her mother and stepfather’s imminent relocation to New York. She has to pack up her childhood possessions in forty-eight hours before returning to L.A. for a big audition with Robert Altman. She’s supposed to be deciding what to keep, but she’s worried about what to wear. In a deranged moment, she kisses her stepfather. On the lips.

Denny Roman at thirty-six: A playwright on the eve of her first Off-Broadway production and once again living within sparring distance of her mother, she comes home from rehearsal one afternoon and finds a thirteen-year- old boy on her doorstep: Luke, the son of Maureen and a Mauritanian refugee cabdriver. Bewildered by his mother’s recent death, Luke is looking for a place where he might fit. Will Denny keep him in New York? Will she get any help from Sean—an actor whose good looks may be all there is to him? Will she be reconciled with her mother at long last?

What to Keep looks into the lives of Denny Roman, her mother, her father, her stepfather, and her surrogate mother—all practicing variations on the theme “parent” but none of them quite done being children themselves. Bubbling with sly humor and psychological insight, their story holds out a refreshingly flexible and realistic model of what a good family—whether created by nature or chance or both—can consist of.


From the Hardcover edition.

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"[P]erfectly observed details of ordinary life that coalesce to offer a realistically hopeful and genuinely touching finale."
Kirkus  (01/15/2004)


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What to Keep: A Novel

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0812971795
Title : What to Keep: A Novel
EAN : 9780812971798
Authors : Rachel Cline
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Publication Date : 2005-03-29
Pages : 320
List Price (MSRP) : 13.95
Height : 0.7900 inches
Width : 5.2000 inches
Length : 7.8700 inches
Weight : 0.5300 pounds
Keywords : Popular Fiction, Family Saga, Contemporary, General, General AAS, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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