Between Here and April - Paperback

from DMO

I read this book in less than day. Obviously, I connected with it. But the emotional reaction I had to the book has left me very uncomfortable. This story of motherhood and marriage and the compromises we make as we enter into each of these accurately portrays the tensions of contemporary married...

from novelnympho

Deborah Copaken Kogen did a really good job of portraying the acts of desperation, the causes and effects, how one woman through trying to understand another woman who has gone before her comes through a desperate time of her own. Raw, honest and sometimes uncomfortably depressing however truly e...

from mzonderm

This book is built around Elizabeth's search to find the truth about what happened to April, her first grade friend who disappeared from school one day. At the time, Elizabeth couldn't get an explanation from her teacher, and her mother was too busy with a new baby and her own issues to really no...

from Coyote99

Between Here and April is both subtle and empathetic in it's exploration of one of our society's most horrible crimes, filicide. Triggered by a repressed memory of the death of a childhood friend, journalist Elizabeth Burns, begins a quest for the truth behind April's death and finds she has to f...

from lahochstetler

The central charater in this novel is Elizabeth Burns, a journalist and a mother, who is trying desperately to manage the demands and desires of both. Frustrated both with the demands of her home life, as well as with the path her career has taken, Elizabeth tries to revitalize both by investigat...