By Cindy of hellodollface

In Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner, three women are the center of the story. There’s Sylvie Woodruff, the proper senators wife who’s job it seems, is to appear perfect beside her politician husband. She wasn’t always so prim and proper though, and has had to learn to stuff her true self into form fitting suits to agree with her husbands job.

Lizzie is her daughter, a recovering addict who seems to attract trouble even though she is trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Then there’s Diana, Sylvie’s older daughter who has everything under control as an ER doctor, wife and mother. It all looks so perfect except that Diana is in a loveless marriage and is in the middle of an affair.

There are many layers to Sylvie and her daughters, which are quickly peeled back when a scandal hits the Woodruff family. The senator’s extra marital affair becomes headline news and the three women are forced to examine their own lives and reevaluate the choices they’ve made.

I enjoyed this novel and read it quickly. No doubt that Fly Away Home will shoot to the top of all the bestseller lists.

Here’s a book that I read in record time, Model Home by Eric Puchner. The story of Warren Ziller and his family pulled me in and did not let me go. Warren loses his family’s money in a terrible real estate venture. He tries to cover up his huge mistake but ends up mistakenly leading his wife into believing he is having an affair. She begins to plot her revenge on poor Warren.

The family ties begin to crack as his three children drift off and make poor choices that ultimately affect everyone. Warren tries to pull it all back together- when it is almost too late. I loved the fact Model Home takes place in the 80’s although it could easily be placed present day. While the tone of the novel is serious, there are some humorous moments. I anxiously await author Eric Puchner’s next novel.