The Goodbye Quilt

Оглавление

Susan Wiggs. The Goodbye Quilt

Also by SUSAN WIGGS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

DAY ONE

Chapter One

Chapter Two

DAY TWO

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

DAY THREE

Chapter Five

DAY FOUR

Chapter Six

DAY FIVE

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

DAY SIX

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

DAY SEVEN

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Epilogue

The Goodbye Quilt Pattern

Отрывок из книги

Contemporary HOME BEFORE DARK THE OCEAN BETWEEN US SUMMER BY THE SEA TABLE FOR FIVE LAKESIDE COTTAGE JUST BREATHE

The Lakeshore Chronicles SUMMER AT WILLOW LAKE THE WINTER LODGE DOCKSIDE SNOWFALL AT WILLOW LAKE FIRESIDE LAKESHORE CHRISTMAS THE SUMMER HIDEAWAY MARRYING DAISY BELLAMY

.....

As for me, I find myself unable to move. I’m not ready. This wrenching grief has blindsided me. I didn’t expect it to be this intense. All kids leave home. That’s the way it works. If you do your job of parenting correctly, this is the end result. They leave. When it doesn’t work that way, that’s when a mother should worry. If the kid sticks around, takes up permanent residence in her childhood bedroom, you’re considered a failure.

Ah, but the price of succeeding is a piece of your soul. I bite my lip to keep from trying to explain this to Dan. He would tell me I’m being overly dramatic. Maybe so, but everything about this process feels dramatic. This child has been the focus of every day of my life for the past eighteen years. After being a parent for so long, I am forced to surrender the role. Now, all of a sudden, a void has opened up.

.....