Dec 21, 2009
The third of Sue Miller’s novels to explore love’s permutations, For Love seems more blatant in its examination of this universal emotion through personal metaphors while also more intimate in following its heroine’s journey to self-understanding than The Good Mother (1986) or Family Pictures (1990). Through discovering what she and those around her are willing to do “for love,” Lottie Gardner’s life is radically transformed over the course of her forty-fifth summer. Unable to remain distant from her brother’s obsessive affair with a neighbor-his...
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