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About The Book
In the vein of Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread and Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is Lucy Barton,Miller’s Valley is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will never forget. In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself.
For generations the Millers have lived in Miller Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life, from the 1960s to the present, with intimacy and honesty. As she eavesdrops on her parents and quietly observes the people around her, she discovers more and more about the toxicity of family secrets, the dangers of gossip, the flaws of marriage, the inequalities of friendship and the risks of passion, loyalty and love. Home, as Mimi begins to realise, can be ‘a place where it’s just as easy to feel lost as it is to feel content’.
Millers Valley is a masterly study of family, memory, loss and, ultimately, of finding true identity and a new vision of home. As Mimi says, ‘No one ever leaves the town where they grew up, even if they go.’ We are reminded that the place where you grew up can disappear, and the people in it too, but all will live on in your heart forever.
For generations the Millers have lived in Miller Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life, from the 1960s to the present, with intimacy and honesty. As she eavesdrops on her parents and quietly observes the people around her, she discovers more and more about the toxicity of family secrets, the dangers of gossip, the flaws of marriage, the inequalities of friendship and the risks of passion, loyalty and love. Home, as Mimi begins to realise, can be ‘a place where it’s just as easy to feel lost as it is to feel content’.
Millers Valley is a masterly study of family, memory, loss and, ultimately, of finding true identity and a new vision of home. As Mimi says, ‘No one ever leaves the town where they grew up, even if they go.’ We are reminded that the place where you grew up can disappear, and the people in it too, but all will live on in your heart forever.
About The Author
© Maria Krovatin
Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (October 1, 2016)
- Length: 272 pages
- ISBN13: 9781471158773
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Raves and Reviews
'Mesmerizing. Quindlen makes her characters so richly alive, so believable, that it’s impossible not to feel every doubt and dream they harbor . . . Overwhelmingly moving’
– The New York Times
'Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart that one is carried away on a tidal wave of involvement and concern'
– Elizabeth Jane Howard
‘A breathtakingly moving look at a family’
– USA Today
‘We are so lucky to have Anna Quindlen in our literary lives. With her big heart and her amazing humanity she reminds us all of our blessings’
– Alice Hoffman, bestselling author of The Dovekeepers
‘Quindlen invests her tale with rare pathos and even rarer psychological acumen . . . the honesty of her storytelling is exemplary’
– Sunday Telegraph
'Stunning . . . The matriarchal theme is at the heart of Miller’s Valley. Miriam pushes her smart daughter to consider college, and other women – a teacher, a doctor, a benefactor – will raise Mimi up past the raging waters that swirl in her heart’
– The Washington Post
‘Quindlen’s provocative novel will have you flipping through the pages of your own family history and memories even as you can’t stop reading about the Millers . . . A coming-of-age story that reminds us that the past continues to wash over us even as we move away from the places and events that formed us’
– Chicago Tribune
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