Serendipity
Mar 29, 2009

Serendipity
Author: Louise Shaffer

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Publication Date: March, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-345-50209-4

Carrie is a good girl. A very good girl. She tries her best to be everything her mother wants her to be. Why? Well, her mother is a saint. Or you would think so from the newspaper and magazine articles written about her.

Carrie's mother, Rose, is from a line of Broadway stars. Rich, famous, brazen theatre stars. Rose and her husband were beautiful, dashing, shining personalities.

But somewhere along the way, Rose's entire lifestyle changed and she gave away all her jewels, her furs, her penthouse apartment and started to live a life that involved nothing but charity work. She gave away all of Carrie's toys and clothes, moved them into a one bedroom apartment where Rose slept on the couch for the next 34 years, and became more famous for her good deeds than when she was rich.

This story starts after Rose dies and Carrie decides she needs to find out about her family's life and why Rose lived and acted the way she did, so that she can have closure and get on with her life - which she has never fully participated in.

And the stories she finds!

This is a quick, nice read - I started it and just was hooked right into the story until suddenly I hit the last page and stared at it in surprise...how did this happen?

I say give it a read!

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