Goodreads asked Susan Wingate:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Susan Wingate Calvin and Beth in ORDINARY PEOPLE. I think because Beth is trying to do everything right and accomplishing the reverse. She's controlling but only because she's trying to keep her family together after they suffer a terrible loss. Calvin is hoping that Beth comes to some understanding that what she is doing is destroying the family, not helping it, but he doesn't say anything until it's too late.

Their relationship speaks to the heart and is one that is bittersweet, one that reveals so much about the pain of their loss.

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