Fly Away Home (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Sylvie Serfer Woodruff: She is the one of the narrators, who is the Senator's wife.
• Richard Woodruff: Sylvie's husband, who is the senator from New York.
• Selma Serfer: Sylvie's mother who was the former chief judge of the state of New York.
• Ceil Farraday: Sylvie's best friend.
• Diana: Sylvie & Richard's elder daughter who is a doctor.
• Lizzie: Sylvie & Richard's youngest daughter, who is just out of rehab.
• Gary: Diana's husband.
• Milo: Diana & Gary's son.
• Doug Vance: An intern in the hospital where Diana works.
• Jeff Spencer: Lizzie's boyfriend.
• Tim Simmons: Sylvie's childhood friend.
• Joelle: Woman who Richard cheats on Sylvie with.
• Lynette: A nurse at the hospital where Diana works
• Larry: Ceil's husband.

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• “In chinese, crisis is the same word as opportunity.”

  Selma

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• “Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive … it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.”

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• “People will want you to behave a certain way, to make a certain choice because it reinforces the way they see the world.

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• “There’s no right way to live a life,” said Sylvie. “You just do the best you can.

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• “Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”

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• HALT. When you were down and vulnerable, when you wanted to use, ask yourself: were you … Hungry? Angry? Lonely? Tired? Name the feelings instead of stuffing them down and hiding them away, her counselors had instructed. Address the feelings and move on.

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• what she was in search of was what all the photographers she most admired had been after: not beauty, which was easy, but truth.

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• but you shouldn’t make a decision because you’re worried about what people will say.”

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• Leica around her neck and her purse over her shoulder, grab Milo’s backpack, and race through the swimming club’s door

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• schadenfreude, she’d Googled Silda Spitzer’s name, and been horrified

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Connecticut
• Philadelphia
• New York City
• Fairview
• Washington

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Jennifer Weiner (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary