Week 8 Women's Lives and Relationships

Elizabeth Berg

Tapestry of Fortunes

Random House, April 9, 2013

ISBN 0812993144

240 pages

• Synopsis
  
  
  Cece is a motivational speaker and writer who has trouble following her own advice.  After her best friend died, she decided to make changes.  She sells her home and most of her stuff and rents a room in a house with three other professional women.  She volunteers at a hospice.  She takes a break from work. A former love gets in touch with Cece and she decides to take a road trip to see him.  Her housemates join her in the trip all for different reasons: one to connect with an ex husband; one to connect with a child she gave up for adoption; one to decide on a career change.  The women encounter new people and in the process deepen their friendships.  Cece finds love and completion in many different ways.
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• Characteristics of Women’s Lives and Relationships:
  
  
  The main character is a woman who faces personal and professional challenges.  Her primary support is female friends and family with an occasionally male.  The challenges she works through may be family or friendship conflicts.  She may struggle with a fulfilling career as well as family, friend, and community responsibilities.  The setting of the novel tends to be modern.  These novels connect with our emotions and bring us into the story.  The pace of the novel is relaxed.  The ending of the novel generally leaves the reader feeling positive and hopeful.
  
  
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  Additional Authors: These authors focus on women, their relationships, and overcoming obstacles.
  
  
  Barbara Samuel
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