After Melanie, Gloria Goldreich
After Melanie, Gloria Goldreich
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After Melanie

Author: Gloria Goldreich

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2019

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

Can they start again, or will they lose one another forever?

David and Judith's fragile marriage is threatened by the sudden death of their beloved thirteen-year-old daughter, Melanie. As they struggle to cope with their loss, they confront bewildering challenges. But instead of turning to each other, they find comfort with others. David is drawn to Nancy, a colleague and single mother, and a survivor of her own personal tragedy, while Judith grows close to Jeffrey, a recently widowed physician whom she meets through her volunteer work at a thrift shop, itself the scene of multiple daily dramas. As their grief drives them further apart, does their future lie together "after Melanie," or are they destined to lose one another for ever?

About Gloria Goldreich

Gloria Goldreich is the critically acclaimed author of several novels, including The Bridal Chair, Open Doors, Dinner With Anna Karenina, Walking Home, and Leah's Journey, which won the National Jewish Book Award, and her stories have appeared in numerous magazines.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Davida on March 17, 2019

My mother once again outdid herself. A sad tale of death and compromise.......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on April 14, 2020

I love Gloria Goldreich. She is a guest lecturer at a retreat center I used to attend. After Melanie, their teenage daughter dies suddenly, Judith and David, her parents plunge into a grief that they can not over come. Will their marriage survive? There son Brian, newly engaged, and his finance, are......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on May 17, 2019

No one knows how they will react when they lose a child except that they will be overcome with grief. How a couple works through that- well that's really really hard. Here, David and Judith find themselves turning to others, rather than to each other. Nancy and Jeffrey, their respective friends (for......more