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spoilers ahead The plot could be taken from headline with which we're all too familiar, A Senator's wife is ashamed when a scandal erupts, Her powerful husband has cheated on her with a much younger aide, The infidelity affects not only his political ambition and the decades long marriage, but their two grown daughters as well, Each daughter has her own issues, The eldest is perfect child who ultimately became an ER doctor, The younger daughter is the troubled child in recovery from drug addiction, The wife sacrificed her own legal career to be the dutiful political wife and perfect aide to her husband, I didn't find the heroine all that sympathetic, She seemed clueless and stupid even though she is clearly welleducated, I felt sorry for the two daughters who seemed to have just been photoops in their father's career, Even so, the two daughters felt like caricatures, Their characters and the heroine's needed much more development as did the wayward husband's character, I didn't fully understand why he cheated and his remorse wasn't all that obvious, I would have loved to have discovered whether the heroine ultimately reconciled or not, The heroine's mother, a brash retired Judge from NYC, was one of my favorite characters in the book, I'd love to read a book where she's the focus! If this had been my first time reading a novel by Jennifer Weiner, I would've been satisfied.
But after reading Weiner greats such as "Good in Bed," "Certain Girls," "In Her Shoes," and "Little Earthquakes," "Fly Away Home" didn't do much for me.


The premise is certainly timely in that a senator's wife, Sylvie Woodruff, discovers along with the rest of the country that her husband Richard had an affair with a muchyounger lobbyist.
Sylvie has to figure out what she's going to do next, Stick by her husband's side and continue to color and straighten her hair while wearing tailored suits and fetching her husband's breakfast or being who she wants to be.


The novel also focuses on Sylvie's two daughters, Diana and Lizzie, along with their struggles, Diane is bored in her marriage and tired of working as a doctor, She is having a hard time berating her father's actions when she herself is entangled in an affair with one of her medical students, Lizzie, who has just gotten out of rehab, finally has a chance to live a great life when her world also comes crashing down,

It felt like I was waiting for something big to happen, and it didn't, The three women end up coming together at their Connecticut home to figure things out, but there is too much back story before this happens, Fly Away Home is a beautifully written story of women who rise to the challenge of accepting and changing unpleasant truths about themselves, Its about the difficulties both private and public of being a member of a Senators family as news of his affair with a much younger woman hits the news.
The book is told from the perspective of the different family members, Sylvie, the Senators wife and each of his two daughters, They are complex and flawed characters and through them Weiner touches on some emotional but timeless topics such as drug addiction, unplanned pregnancy, infidelity and marriage.
One thing I enjoyed about this story is that each of these women, although different, is very strong, Its heartwarming to witness their inter relationships grow as each looks inward, confronts her inner conflicts and becomes a shade more true to herself, Although the plot slowed in spots, my main complaint is that although I got to know the characters, neither they nor the story stayed with me for any length of time.
In short, fans of Jennifer Weiner and those looking for a light airport or beach read will enjoy this book, Wow. I'm really shocked that so many Goodread's folks have given this such good reviews, This book was very disappointing, I have enjoyed Jennifer Weiner's books in the past and this one I could barely get through I did listen to this on CD,

The characters are so unlikeable and so one dimensional, There's really no reason for us to care about them or their challenges, I'm also finding the sister theme of one sister is the smart crabby sister and the other is the flighty sister really tiresome,

Judith Light reads the book on the CD version and while some of the characters voices are great, some are nails on a chalk board brutal.
Every day I considered returning this to the libraray do not spend any money on this! and didn't because I didn't have a backup to listen to during my commute.


On to better things! There are some books I find hard to rate, . . I enjoyed reading them amp finish them quickly, but at the end, I don't feel moved by the book, have a feeling of satisfaction at the end of the story or feel that it was special in any way.
seems kind of harsh, butstars, to me, is a book that I finish and think, "wow, that was a good book",

Fly Away Home is one of those books, I read it quickly amp it was enjoyable, but I didn't close have that satisfied feeling I get when I finish a good book, Maybe it was because I just finished reading American Wife,but I didn't really feel like there was anything specail about this book that set it apart from all the other books about women who get cheated on midlife books.


Fly Away Home is about the Woodruff family, Sylvie is married to Richard a Senator and they havegrown daughters, One daughter, Diana, is "perfect" married, kid, ER doctor the other, Lizzie, is the messed up one recovery addict, Richard has an affair with an aide amp everything comes crashing down for Sylvie, She has spent her whole marriage catering to her husband, Now, she has to decide whether to stay with him amp how to redefine herself, The girls are also a mess, Diana in a loveless marriage well, at least on her endamp having an affair and Lizzie still not pulling herself together.
The story is divided intoparts and each part has several chapters told from Sylvie, Diane and Lizzie's point of view,

The book was enjoyable amp a fast read, but nothing new or especially moving, As a side note, I hate how much Weiner's characters always think about their weight, . . lots "big" girls who are "forced" to be slim and then are happy when they can be curvy again or lots of weight related comments/descriptions/thoughts.
The No.Bestselling Author Jennifer Weiner's 'Fly Away Home' is a book on family issues, When all goes wrong in life, we know it's our family who has got our back, but then, what if the family itself is in a lot of problems The story has multiple POVs, the mother, and her two grownup daughters.
Jennifer has written indepth each POV, trying to give justice as to how a family can be so messed up and still get together in the end.


Sylvie is a doting wife to a senator husband Richard, unmindful mother to her two beautiful daughters, Diana and Elizabeth Lizzie, She has forgotten her own self, is struggling to keep her life together after her husband cheats on her, Diana is a proficient doctor with a socially awkward son Milo and a lazy husband Gary, After seven years of being married, she now feels that it's a mistake, Lizzie is an addict but pronounced clean and out of her rehab, looking after Diana's son for the summer, where she falls in love with a guy Jeff.


The thing I really found interesting in this book is that Jennifer divulged details in

such a way that the reader doesn't really get confused as the story progresses.
Each part of their lives is broken up in three separate phases, which helps you understand what happens when and why, Every other chapter is from a different person's POV, assisting you to know what is happening concurrently in their lives,

I couldn't stop reading the book for most of the parts, but then somewhere down the line, the book really gets you, you just feel like giving up.
It is a wellwritten tale but can come as saddening since nothing positive seems to be happening in their lives, The book has a good storyline, however, felt like it needed to be cut short on many details which didn't really need to be there,

This book is a onetime read if at all anyone is interested in family dramas, I found the book to be drab, I had started reading it, kept the book aside as it was giving me a reading slip, but succeeded in finishing it when I took it once again.
This book is esoteric to emotional people, It also has some grammatical errors, which I hadn't expected from a bestselling author, The book is a little overrated and poorly executed, Why I really liked this book: each woman, the heroine, and her two daughters, had issues with "life" and control, . . messy, messy life and the choices we make, Life is tricky and has a way of spinning out of control no matter what, So faced with the ultimate indignity, a political wife withdrew to a sad old comfortable CT beach house and as much as I like Martha Stewart tales of reclamation, the only decorating was "interior" and internal Lol.
. . and took stock, and made stock and roasts and stews and took walks and took back her life and her memories and her choices.
Same w/her daughters. I especially felt for the perfect daughter, A safe marriage to ease the potential pain of rejection ended up being arid and lonely and her solution was almost a killer, The addicted daughter came closest to being a cliche because you see her only in recovery and neither the before or after really conveyed her interior struggles.
Her actions rang true though and you could understand her through the choices she made,

Highly recommended. I am not sure that I really want to waste much time doing a synopsis of this thing, It is one of those "taken from the headlines" stories in which a woman, who has devoted her entire life, to a politician finds that he has been having an affair with one of his aides.
With asides to such shell shocked wives as Dana McGreevey and others, Weiner goes on and on and on about the affair and its aftermath, It gets quite tiresome really, in that not much happens in this book, No one really learns anything profound no one has any epiphanies and the cast of characters, none of whom are particularly likeable do not grow much at all.
For those who enjoy that kind of thing, there are lots of scenes that include vivid details of gratuitous sex, All in all a complete waste of time, I kept reading and hoping that something interesting would happen, But nothing does. I really enjoyed this book, I see there are so many negative reviews and complaints that it was boring, but I didn't feel that way,

The story starts with a family and two grown daughters, one being the successful neverdowrong daughter and the other limps along through life feeling dejected.
The husband/father is a politician and is caught cheating on his wife, This is when the fallout begins, and the daughters come to difficult life decisions at the same time, So many issues are looked at from different perspectives infidelity, addiction, marriage struggles other than infidelity, motherhood, pregnancy, . . so much. And it wasn't chaotic to read, I liked the characters and the pace was just right for my mood, .