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    Lost in the Forest

    Written by Sue Miller

    Narrated by Blair Brown

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels, Miller has written with exquisite precision about the experience of grace in daily life-the sudden, epiphanic recognition of the extraordinary amid the ordinary-as well as the sharp and unexpected motions of the human heart away from it, toward an unruly netherworld of upheaval and desire. But never before have Miller's powers been keener or more transfixing than they are in Lost in the Forest, a novel set in the vineyards of Northern California that tells the story of a young girl who, in the wake of a tragic accident, seeks solace in a damaging love affair with a much older man.

    Eva, a divorced and happily remarried mother of three, runs a small bookstore in a town north of San Francisco. When her second husband, John, is killed in a car accident, her family's fragile peace is once again overtaken by loss. Emily, the eldest, must grapple with newfound independence and responsibility. Theo, the youngest, can only begin to fathom his father's death. But for Daisy, the middle child, John's absence opens up a world of bewilderment, exposing her at the onset of adolescence to the chaos and instability that hover just beyond the safety of parental love. In her sorrow, Daisy embarks on a harrowing sexual odyssey, a journey that will cast her even farther out onto the harsh promontory of adulthood and lost hope.

    With astonishing sensuality and immediacy, Lost in the Forest moves through the most intimate realms of domestic life, from grief and sex to adolescence and marriage. It is a stunning, kaleidoscopic evocation of a family in crisis, written with delicacy and masterful care. For her lifelong fans and those just discovering Sue Miller for the first time, here is a rich and gorgeously layered tale of a family breaking apart and coming back together again: Sue Miller at her inimitable best.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 5, 2005
    ISBN9780739320242
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    • 3/5
      This was a wonderful book. The story told by one of the characters, the youngest child of a divorced couple living in the Nappa Valley. As we listen in to her conversation with her therapist when she is an adult, she comments on the divorce of her parents, her mother's remarriage and subsequent widowhood, her affair with an older family friend and the redemption of having family around you. I enjoyed being along for her ride.
    • 4/5
      Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller; Orange L/L, 2006; (3 1/2*)I thought this to be a brilliant novel in many ways. It's also frightening as it begins with a with the death of a husband and parent. Miller wrote this first part so well that I physically felt a loathing sense of doom. The novel is set in the wine country of the Napa Valley in California of the 1980s. The story is drawn against the this backdrop. The stories within the novel are written exquisitely and lives are lived and torn apart. I thought the book to be quite good but in the end it got away from the author in a way that was disheartening for this reader. It turned out to be a roller coaster of a ride.
    • 1/5
      Pale and dull, Boredomcrept in and around my earswhispering, "delete."
    • 3/5
      My initial reaction to this was "mediocre." And then I was left wondering what the point of this story was. I believe the author was trying to examine the aftereffects of a family member's death, but that seemed almost inconsequential when examining this as a whole. It was almost a coming-of-age novel that missed the mark. The sexual relationship between a teenager & an older adult was somewhat disturbing, yes, but I thought even in general, the author seemed a bit more preoccupied with sexual content than necessary. This wasn't a complete waste of time -- the story had its moments, but ultimately it left me feeling very indifferent both to the story itself and to the characters.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book.I didn't think I would, but it drew me in. Great storylines about ea person, and then a decent follow-up chapter yrs later. A divorced womans new husband is killed tragically, and how this impacts her, her daughters with her ex husband, and her ex husband, and son from her new husband. How the youngest daughter goes in to an affair with an older man, a friend of the family, and results of that. 12/27/05
    • 4/5
      A quick read that offers the reader a smooth ride through some rather serious, large issues. I found this book to be a nice change of pace from some of the bulkier, more intellectual fare I've been reading. I don't mean to say that this book lacks brains because it certainly doesn't. Reading this book is like putting on a pair of flannel pj's and slipping under the covers on a chilly night, and is in fact what you should read when you do so.
    • 3/5
      I did not like Lost in the Forest as much as the other Sue Miller novel I read, While I Was Gone. She is a master at "explaining" why people engage in descructive and immoral behavior. The Questions, "What got into her?" and "Where did that come from?" are do a great degree explained. However, in this book, the misguided and self destructive behaviors of the 15 year old daughter who get's intimately involved with a middle aged man are not as well explained to my mind as the lack of fidelity of the the happily married wife in "While I was Gone". Interestingly, I've noticed some readers making the same comment about about that character as I am making here. The point seems to be that people can understand the emotional drives that they themselves feel and cannot understand those that seem remote to them.Overall, I liked this book. I like the way things were resolved in the end. There was nothing earth shattering or extremely heroic. But there was a nice message of reconcilliation, growth, healing and even redemption through psychotherapy. But since I couldn't identify with the temptations leading the main character into her crisis, I could not appreciate the book all that much. I suppose that's why I can only give it only 3 stars.
    • 3/5
      I found this book very hard to get through. I felt the parents were incredibly irreponsible. There was also a very sexual tone to the whole book which was off-putting (and not just the explicit stuff). This may have been the author's intent. The father seemed like a complete idiot, but in the end, I guess he is supposed to have grown up (in his forties). The only appealing character was the little boy, Theo. Miller really did a great job with his dialogue and characteriztion - he comes across as a real little boy, and not a cliched cutesy kid. I must say this was my least favourite of Sue Miller's books - I really liked her other books. It make my angry and I did not learn anything new. The character Duncan is one of the most despicable I have come across lately!
    • 5/5
      Just about a perfect book, I'd say. Perfect seamless rendering of different points of view - was it only Mark and Daisy, or was the mother's in there? Wonderful perspective on marriage, and sexual initiation. A very nuanced, deeply thought-out, moral position.
    • 3/5
      So I bought this because Stephen King gave it a glowing review in Entertainment Weekly? And umm...yeah. I have no idea why. It wasn't crap - but....ummmm...yeah.
    • 4/5
      Fantastic book, really enjoyed it. Looking for more Sue Miller
    • 4/5
      Not something I would have picked up on my own, but that's why I joined a book club, after all. This is the story of a family dealing with a tragedy, each dealing in their own way. The hardest hit is the middle child - her older sister is busy with her own life, her parents don't really understand her - and she struggles with some very self-destructive behavior. I love the way the narrator's voice changes throughout the book, giving you a glimpse at the story from every angle. A quick read, but worth the time invested.