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Mother’s Day Book Selection: Day 4

We have suggested some lighter fare for our dear readers to purchase for their beloved mothers (or the important women in their lives). Books that will make them laugh and enjoy those few moments they have to seep into the pages of a novel. Now we have a suggestion that runs deeper.

Editors Choice: THE SENATOR’S WIFE by Sue Miller

In The Senator’s Wife, we are introduced to two women at very different stages in married life; Meri is a new wife and soon-to-be mother, and her neighbor, Delia Naughton, an older woman who is carrying on a very “convenient” marriage with her political husband (a former senator with hints of Kennedy-esque history). The two women are both learning to navigate life at entirely different stages and along the way form a completely unique and unpredictable friendship that both desperately need at this tumultuous point in both their lives.

Meri becomes obsessed with the relationship between Delia and Tom, while we learn about Delia’s own obsession with Tom and the power of trust and betrayal in a relationship. This novel will open your eyes to the various elements that make up love and the ease with which the walls we build in our lives, the foundations we create, can be broken down.