everybody have skeletons in their closet

amazing atifah

reality HURTS,
truths BITES.
living SKILLS,
today TORTURE,
so what's new?

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

skylight confession by alice hoffman

okayy.
after sahur.
waiting to smayang subuh.
and suddenly teringt bout my latest book i've read.
naaa~latest is steph's book.
wte.
it;s skylight confession by alice hoffman.
uwaaaa.
bace buku ni feels like crying.

This theme of being lost and found echoes like a musical refrain through the novel, starting with the way 17-year-old Arlyn Singer meets the man she will marry.

On the day of her widowed father's funeral, she vows, "The first man who walks down the street will be my one love, and I will be true to him as long as he's true to me."

Yale University student John Moody, lost on his way to a party, uncharacteristically stops to ask for directions. He comes into Arlyn's house and embrace, falls into a deep slumber and later becomes her husband.

After they have a son and move into an architectural landmark called the Glass Slipper, because of its hundreds of windows woven together with thin bands of polished steel, Arlyn re-evaluates John as her Prince Charming. He's a distant father to their son, Sam, an odd child who obsesses over things such as dishes and bones that can be broken.

As it sadly turns out, Sam has reason to worry about wounds and divisions that cannot be healed. His family and his heart are broken in a cruel twist of fate that consumes the first third of the novel. He, too, may be lost to a modern-day scourge.

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