Every Last One

Every Last One
By Anna Quindlen
Random House, 2010. 299 pgs. Fiction

Mary Beth Latham loves being a mother to her three teenage children. She has a successful landscaping business and a loving husband. As one of her sons, Max, slips deeper into depression her focus shifts to him and she is blindsided by an act of violence that shatters the life she has known.

Anna Quindlen does an excellent job of writing very realistic characters. At one point I had to go back and make sure I was reading a novel and not a biography because the characters felt so real and the situations so normal. This book is about facing our darkest fears and having the courage to keep living our life, even when it seems impossible to go on.

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