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Cargando... The Secret We Lostpor Linda Smolkin
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Three generations. One secret. A life-changing twist of fate. It's 1993 in Washington, DC, and Elsa Kartchner isn't getting any younger. But the passage of time is the last thing on her mind. Instead, she's focused on her free-spirited daughter, Laura, who's about to start a year-long trip to Russia. When they go their separate ways, Elsa's sorrow turns into resentment as she becomes sole caretaker to her own mother, Millie. To cope, Elsa devours Laura's letters from Russia and indulges in chocolate she keeps in her nightstand. But her stash of sweets isn't the only thing she's hiding. That's because Elsa and Millie have a complicated past. A buried secret haunts them both, and Elsa must decide whether to tell Laura. Fearing that Laura may discover it when she returns, Elsa wants to confess. She travels to Russia hoping for acceptance, but while there, gets a surprise of her own. In THE SECRET WE LOST, love, loss, and redemption vie for attention against an intercontinental backdrop, as Elsa struggles with the truth. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I found this book very emotional and hardly got through it without crying in a lot of places. The sadness that Elsa held inside of her with her brother's death at age 4, when she was 10, her mother's disassociation with her because of this throughout her life, until the day her mother died living with her, the death of her husband Max, from a freak accident. Then there was her daughter Laura who was in her 20's who moved to Russia to live and teach and Elsa's not being able to let go of her daughter and "ran to Russia" 3 times, once to tell her about her brother Michael's death. Why couldn't she do it after all these years? I have no idea but flying to Russia to do it was not the place in my opinion and then ended up flying back to Washington, DC, where she lived because Laura was upset that she didn't tell her sooner. The 3rd time she went back to Russia was because Laura was attacked (slashed on her cheek). Crazy!
In the end, Elsa got her act together, sought help for her insecurities of not letting go of the past, and found love finally. (