Coming Back To Me
Caroline Leavitt
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2003 Griffin Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0312305540

It can take a long time to build up a life, & only moments to destroy it.

Gary & Molly met in the way couples do: after a long haul of being single, quickly becoming soulmates & rejoicing in that fact. Beautiful, red-haired Molly, who keeps her past veiled in pleasantries, ignites a fire in Gary. Starting a family is something they both eagerly want, & it is with great joy Molly finds herself pregnant.

It is when she leaves for the hospital that things start to go awry. Just a few weeks later Gary is alone with a newborn & a mountain of medical bills he has no means of paying. Desperate for help, he calls on Molly's long estranged sister, Suzanne.

It is while Gary returns day after day to his beloved comatose wife in the ICU that he starts to look about him, understands what community is, what waiting entails, what loving means.

It is with unrepentant sister Suzanne's arrival, desparate & destitute, lugging a huge chip labeled Molly, on her shoulder, that Gary learns more about his indomitable wife's life, & a lot about the dark side of families.

Caroline Leavitt has flawlessly tackled the challenges of love & marriage, family & loss in an exciting, twisting medical nightmare, with the hope for redemption springing eternal.

More from Caroline Leavitt:
Girls in Trouble
(03/21/04)

Rebecca