“She always told me, “When the world gives you a hard time, pick up a book and join another.”
A heartbreaking novel, a story that touches your heart and soul in hundreds of different ways, depending who the reader is.
Told from three different point of view, the mother, the father, the daughter, the story untangles the "what if", the regrets and the guilt father and daughter feel after the wife/mother suicide.
And a lot comes out about the role of housewives, the sacrifices a woman does for her family, the little things that gives a woman recognize for her work. The story also covers father/daughter relationship, one that always had the mother in the middle before her death and which now becomes nude and needs building from scratch.
A very touching novel, well written and poignant. Not 100% convinced about the end, but somehow was expected. Overall, a great read, highly recommend it.
Overall rating: 8 Plot: 8 Writing style: 7 Cover: 6
Title: I liked my life
The Plot:
Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of advice or two. She is the cornerstone of her family, a true matriarch...until she commits suicide, leaving her husband Brady and teenage daughter Eve heartbroken and reeling, wondering what happened. How could the exuberant, exacting woman they loved disappear so abruptly, seemingly without reason, from their lives? How they can possibly continue without her? As they sift through details of her last days, trying to understand the woman they thought they knew, Brady and Eve are forced to come to terms with unsettling truths. Maddy, however, isn't ready to leave her family forever. Watching from beyond, she tries to find the perfect replacement for herself. Along comes Rory: pretty, caring, and spontaneous, with just the right bit of edge...but who also harbors a tragedy of her own. Will the mystery of Maddy ever come to rest? And can her family make peace with their history and begin to heal?
The Author:
Abby Fabiaschi is a human rights advocate and co-founder of Empower Her Network, a nonprofit that paves a path for survivors of human trafficking with a will for independence. In 2012 Abby resigned from her executive post in high tech to pursue a career in writing. I Liked My Life is her first novel. She and her family divide their time between West Hartford, Connecticut, and Park City, Utah.
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