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Original Title: The World Below
ISBN: 0747584583 (ISBN13: 9780747584582)
Edition Language: English

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From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Miller's singular gift 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 nearly lost world of youth and possibility, and meets the doomed young man who will become her lover.

Vermont, the present. On the heels of a divorce, Catherine Hubbard, Georgia's granddaughter, takes up residence in Georgia's old house. Sorting through her own affairs, Cath stumbles upon the true 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 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 begin to seem remarkably similar, despite their distinctly different times: two young girls, generations apart, motherless at nearly the same age, thrust into early adulthood, struggling with 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 very nature of intimacy, faithfulness, betrayal, and love. Marvelously written, expertly told, The World Below captures the shadowy half-truths of the visible world, and the beauty and sorrow submerged beneath the surfaces of our lives--the lost world of the past, our lost hopes for the future. A tour de force from one of our most beloved storytellers.


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Title:The World Below
Author:Sue Miller
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 275 pages
Published:April 1st 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (first published October 2nd 2001)
Categories:Fiction. Literary Fiction. Novels

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Sue Miller does such a beautiful job of showing the relationships of women from the same family and how they understand one another! Her writing is impeccable. She shies away from over sentimentality as this lovely story unfold as a set of grandmothers diaries are uncovered.

Sue Miller's characters read; this makes them far more interesting, more complex than most American characters. In this novel, the central character reads letters of her great-grandmother who had been institutionalized at nineteen. This led to a lifetime, a marriage, of unsuspected depths and doubts. Such reading characters should also interest Goodreads afficianados. In the World Below, the life of the TB asylum is exposed, in a sense. All that time, nothing to do: of course relationships

This is the second novel I've read by Sue Miller. While I didn't like it quite as much as the first, The Lake Shore Limited, it was still very good. Half of this book is an example of the "middle-aged woman moves to a new town" genre that I seem to be stuck on these days. Catherine, the protagonist, has inherited her grandparents' house in Vermont and decides to stay there for a few months to figure out if she should sell it or keep it. Miller hits all the right notes for this subgenre, but I

Comparing professional reviews of Sue Miller's books (from such eminent places as the New York Times, LA Times, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, etc.) to the reviews and ratings that she tends to get on Goodreads makes me think that perhaps she is not getting the audience or kudos she deserves on this site. But I really enjoyed and admired Miller's weaving together of the two stories that dominate this book. Perhaps because my grandmother was also in a TB sanitarium after World War I, I was

I liked this book for its probing consideration of how people deal with societal expectations of our personal lives. Miller weaves a narrative of one woman's self-reflective journey to her childhood home where she finds her grandmother's diaries and tries to piece together her mysterious past. The reader is treated to 3rd person scenes from the past that allow us to recognize a deeper reality in contrast to the understanding that the protagonist gains from reading the diary so many years later.

The thing that stuck with me about this novel was the image of those houses below that resevoir. It reminded me of the novel Evidence of Things Unseen.

About a schizophrenic wife: "He hoped, he always hoped this; it's the disease that affects those who love people who are ill - that this would be a turning point for her, that things might be different from now on. She would make friends, she would have a life in the world that compelled and occupied her." Boy, aint that the truth. There's also an interesting discussion about keeping a diary, why, and why one would not destroy it. Haven't read Miller in a long time and I remember now why she