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Country wide Jewish Booklet Awards 2012, Finalist JJ Greenberg Memorial Honor for Fiction From the writer of the New York Times Well known Booklet Matrimony ["Beautiful...Brilliant." (Michael Cunningham)], a moving, mesmerizing new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family group tragedy. It's July 4, 2005, and the Frankel family is descending after their beloved summertime home in the Berkshires. But this is not a ordinary holiday. The family has accumulated to memorialize Leo, the youngest of the four siblings, an intrepid journalist and adventurer who was simply wiped out on that day in 2004, while on task in Iraq. The parents, Marilyn and David, are adrift in grief. Their 40-time marriage is slipping apart. Clarissa, the eldest sibling and a previous cello prodigy, has settled into an ambivalent domesticity and is struggling at era 39 to be pregnant. Lily, a fiery-tempered lawyer and the family contrarian, is irritated at everyone. And Noelle, whose teenage years were shadowed by promiscuity and university expulsions, has shifted to Jerusalem and be a born-again Orthodox Jew. The very last person to see Leo alive, Noelle has flown back again for the memorial with her hubby and four children, but she feels completely out of place. And Thisbe - Leo's widow and mom with their three-year-old kid - has result from California bearing her own top secret. Set against the background of Self-reliance Day and the Iraq Conflict, The World Without You is a novel about sibling rivalries and marital feuds, about volatile women and silent men, and, ultimately, about the true meaning of family.
