
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
From the New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a "devastatingly on target" ( Elle ) novel about a young woman's accidental death and its effect on her family and friends. For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara's notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night's drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara—"held aloft and shimmering for years"—finally lands.Mining the intricate relationship between love and mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman—her mother or her closest friends? Depicting the aftermath of Sara's shocking death with piercing humor and shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother and a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Prologue
- 1: Brown-Eyed Girl
- 2: Girl Talk
- 3: The Friends of Sara Swerdlow
- 4: With Sara
- 5: The Visitor
- 6: Smiling Buddha
- 7: The Shopping Trip
- 8: Campfire Girls
- 9: Thrilling in Bed
- 10: Golden Boy
- 11: Sara in the Sky
- 12: In the Blood
- 13: A Mother’s Kisses
- 14: Spinsters!
- 15: Enough is Enough
- Reading Group Guide
- About the Author
- Copyright