Open House: A Novel
By Elizabeth Berg
Oprah Book Club® Selection #38, August 2000
Editorial Review:
The narrator of Elizabeth Berg’s Open House calls divorce “a series of internal earthquakes … one after the other.” She ought to know. Samantha is abandoned by her husband in the opening pages of this three-handkerchief special, and the resultant tremors keep her off-balance for most of the novel. There are practical problems aplenty, of course, including a shortage of money and an 11-year-old son to raise. But Sam’s sense of emotional bereavement is far worse, despite the fact that her husband had been giving her the conjugal cold shoulder for years: Continue reading »