What We Keep - Softcover

Berg, Elizabeth

3.9

17,646 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345435028 ISBN 13: 9780345435026

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2002

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A touching, compassionate novel of childhood and family by the author of Open House follows one woman on a cross-country journey to see her long-estranged mother, which sparks memories of the summer she turned twelve. Reprint.

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Review:

"Berg knows the hearts of her characters intimately, showing them with compassion, humor, and an illuminating generosity."
--The Seattle Times
"PICK UP ELIZABETH BERG'S WHAT WE KEEP, A SMALL BOOK WITH A HUGE HEART."
--New York Newsday
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . What We Keep is about ties that are buried but not broken, wounds that are dressed but never heal, and love that changes form but somehow survives. . . . [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the mother she has not seen in 35 years. During the long hours of her flight, she returns in memory to the summer when she turned 12 and her family turned inside out. . . . Berg's tender depiction of a young girl's view of the world is uncanny and gives this story its heart. She captures perfectly what it was like to grow up in the '50s, presenting it like a long-forgotten, but still sharp photograph. . . . What We Keep will touch you. It will allow you, for a few hours, to see the world through the eyes of a 12-year-old and feel in your adult heart the stubborn endurance of love."
--USA Today
"BERG'S FIFTH NOVEL IS ONE OF HER MOST COMPELLING. . . . Berg limns the character with such vivid detail, and such honesty, that reading the book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul. . . . An excellent book to savor and pass on to a mother, a sister, or a close friend."
--Charleston Post and Courier
"COMPELLING . . . Berg limns the character with such vivid detail, and such honesty, that reading the book is like having an intimate conversation with a friend who is baring her soul. . . . An excellent book to savor and pass on to a mother, a sister, or a close friend."
--Charleston Post and Courier

About the Author:

Elizabeth Berg’s novels Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year. Talk Before Sleep was an ABBY finalist, a New York Times bestseller, and a national bestseller. The Pull of the Moon, Range of Motion, What We Keep, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along also were national bestsellers. Open House was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club. In 1997, Berg won the NEBA Award in fiction. She lives in Massachusetts.

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