While I Was Gone (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Sue Miller
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s and the late 1990’s
- Setting: Adams Mill and Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Josephine (Jo) Becker, Daniel Becker, Dana Jablonski, Eli Mayhew, Jean Bennett, Nora Becker, Cass Becker, Sadie Becker
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, 1960’s, Murder or homicide, Marriage, New England, Obsession, Adultery, Sermons, Clergy, 1990’s, Veterinarians
- Locales: Cambridge, MA
In While I Was Gone, Sue Miller again addresses the issues related to sexual love, maternal love, marriage, identity, and morality that she introduced in her first novel, The Good Mother (1986), and later explored in Family Pictures (1990), For Love (1993), and The Distinguished Guest (1995). Throughout her works, Miller emphasizes her belief that life is made up of a series of difficult choices and that when one makes the wrong choice, one must face the consequences. However much she sympathizes with characters like the protagonist of The Good...
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