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From the author of While I USED TO BE Gone, a sensational new novel that showcases Sue Miller's singular surprise for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women.
Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings since her mother's death, is diagnosed, at nineteen, with tuberculosis and sent away to a sanitarium. Freed from the burdens of caretaking, she discovers a practically lost world of youth and possibility, and meets the doomed son who'll become her lover.
Vermont, today's. Over the heels of an divorce, Catherine Hubbard, Georgia's granddaughter, occupies residence in Georgia's old house. Sorting through her own affairs, Cath stumbles upon the real story of Georgia's life and marriage, and of the misunderstanding upon which she built a lasting love.
With the tales of these two women--one a country doctor's wife with a haunting past, the other a twice-divorced SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA schoolteacher casting about at midlife for answers to her future--Miller offers us a novel of astonishing richness and emotional depth. Linked by bitter disappointments, compromise, and powerful grace, the lives of Georgia and Cath commence to seem to be remarkably similar, despite their distinctly differing times: two young girls, generations apart, motherless at practically the same age, thrust into early adulthood, fighting confusing bonds of attachment and guilt; both of them in marriages that are not what they seem, forced to make choices that call into question the nature of intimacy, faithfulness, betrayal, and love. Marvelously written, expertly told, The World Below captures the shadowy half-truths of the obvious world, and the beauty and sorrow submerged under the surfaces of your lives--the lost world of days gone by, our lost hopes for future years. A tour de force from one of your most beloved storytellers.
