Open House, Elizabeth Berg
Open House, Elizabeth Berg
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Open House

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Narrator: Becky Baker

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2000

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

An Oprah's Book Club selection

Samantha Morrow's husband has left her, and after a spree of overcharging at Tiffany's, she settles down to reconstruct a life for herself and her 11-year-old son. Her eccentric mother tried to help by fixing her up with dates, but a more pressing problem is money.

To meet her mortgage payments, Sam decides to take in boarders. The first is an older woman who offers sage advice and sorely needed comfort; the second, a maladjusted student, is not quite so helpful. A new friend, King, an untraditional man, suggests that Samantha get out, get going, get work. But her real work is this: In order to emerge from grief and the past, she has to learn how to make her own happiness. In order to really see people, she has to look within her heart. And in order to know who she is, she has to remember--and reclaim--the person she used to be, long before she became someone else in an effort to save her marriage.

Deeply felt, beautifully observed, and written with perfect emotional pitch, Open House is the unforgettable story of how a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening her house to strangers and her heart to the simple miracle of possibility.

About Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Sheila on 2007-04-11 10:43:53

Did not want this book to end; after the last page, wanted to know, 'then what happens.' Elizabeth Berg has a way of making her characters seem like folks from your own life, maybe even you. If contemporary fiction is your thing, if you enjoy real characters going about the day-to-day stuff we all go through (rife with tears AND laughter) you owe it to yourself to give Berg a read.

Goodreads review by Karen on August 04, 2024

Catching up… To be honest, I thought I had already recorded my review of this one. So, when this was recently donated to my Little Free Library Shed, it was only natural that I re-visit it so that I finally could. This is Samantha’s story. Her re-making of herself after believing she was happily marr......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on December 02, 2017

3.5 stars rounded up What a delightful little book was Open House by Elizabeth Berg. It's been sitting on my bookshelf for the longest time just waiting to reach the top of my TBR. Samantha Morrow is 42, has an 11 year old son Travis and is happy in her life and her marriage. Unfortunately her husban......more

Goodreads review by Janice on August 28, 2012

I read "Open House" by Elizabeth Berg for the first time four years ago. I discovered her books at the library and read all of Berg’s titles available there, then purchased some additional titles as well. I’ve now read all of her books except, oddly considering my profession, her book on writing, wh......more