Departures

By Elizabeth Oness and Julie Rogers

It is only when their mother disappears, leaving word with each of her daughters that she will be out of the country, sisters Pagan, Prana, and Zhikr are shaken. A single parent, their mother has always been a stable, constant presence and each of them needs her now. Pagan's second pregnancy has turned into a harrowing nightmare. Prana is devastated when her long affair with a married man starts to fall apart. And Zeke has become--reluctantly-- the only sober caretaker for her soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend's daughters. In their mother's absence, the sisters piece together fragments of her past to realize what it might have cost her, a child of the sixties, to sacrifice her free-spirited ways in order to raise them in a comfortable Westchester town. In the face of difficulty--and without her mother's presence--each sister must reflect her mother's resolve and do what is necessary to preserve herself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425195902
• ISBN13: 9780425195901
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Very absorbing read

Definitely a "women's" book, but anyone who is a woman, who has been single, who has been married, who has sisters, a family, love relationships, parents or children, will relate to the lives and problems of these very realistic and believable women. I was wishing the book would never end. It may not be the greatest book, but it involves the reader deeply and is very affecting.