500 Great Books By Women discussion

Fortunate Lives, Robb Forman Dew, 1991, United States, NOVEL

"...Watching her son out of the window, she realizes that "eventually his absence would seem a natural condition of the world to her. She could even anticipate that eventually his homecomings, although always longed for, might be disruptive, even intrusive in her life...What she couldn't imagine, looking out of the blurred, moisture-beaded window, was the way in which she and Martin would lead their lives after the departure of their children."

(R.S., p. 79)