How Close We Come: A Novel About Women's Friendships Review

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How Close We Come: A Novel About Women's Friendships ReviewI read this first novel by Susan S. Kelly in about 3 hours. The author lives in Greensboro, NC, where this book takes place. In a nutshell, this is a novel about women's friendships....plain writing that evoked many feelings and memories of the time when my children were younger and friendships with other women were of the utmost importance. Not that such friendships are not important now, but when my children were pre-school, friends were life savers. The mothers' network (my term) kept our bodies and souls together, and our sanity somewhat intact.
Some memories this book stirred:
* finding a stray Christmas present in March because I had hidden it so well!
* the pre-dawn line in the church parking lot for pre-school registration - first come, first served
* playing "Beauty Shop" with my daughter - she "fixed me up"-- hair, makeup, nails, etc.! What a hoot that was!
* meeting new neighbors and taking them on "orientation" trips around the community
* the desperate search for daytime babysitters so one could go to the dentist
Here is something from the book that really made an impact:
"Details.
Psychiatrists and theorists and essayists, and yes, feminists, dissect and analyze and assign universal themes and theories to explain what binds women: the desire to nurture, the experience of childbirth, the constant striving to succeed in a male-dominated world. And surely these are our common causes.
But what truly, more accurately, binds women is the incremental collective trivia of hilarities and heartbreaks, humiliation and hum-drum amassed over telephones and fences, over laundry baskets and garden beds, on back stoops and park benches, in driveways and dry cleaners, in checkout lanes and carpool lines.
It's the parallel details of their existence which bind and entwine women with one another: the minutae of children and husbands and homes. Bound by the perpetual presence of smudges on windows from children's hands and lips; by fending off dinnertime solicitations; by dust balls the size of mice beneath beds; by sick days and snow days; by the availability of babysitters; by short-lived forays into extra-curricular activities and self-improvement; by periods of sheer maintenance with no forward progression, waiting only for time to pass."
Pril and Ruth have been next-door neighbors and best friends for ten years, as have their children. The women are closer than sisters. One day, Ruth leaves to vacation in Colorado with her children, and never returns. She does not call or write to explain why she has left. This book explores the basis of the friendship and some difficult choices Pril must make when Ruth's husband sues for custody of their children.
This is a powerful book that will stay with me for a long while.How Close We Come: A Novel About Women's Friendships OverviewPril Henderson and Ruth Campbell have been best friends and next door neighbours for a decade. So when Ruth goes on vacation with her children and never returns, Pril is hurt, confused and lonely. Then she must face one of the most wrenching decisions of her life.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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