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Grace
by (Narrator: Elizabeth Nunez)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Sound Library (2003-03)
ISBN: 0792728580
EAN: 9780792728580
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
SKU: C037ATF
Condition: Used: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Justin Peters is a Harvard-educated professor of British and classic literature who reads Shakespeare to his four-year-old daughter, Giselle. A native of Trinidad and the product of a strict, English-style education, Justin and his focus on the works of “Dead White Men” receive little professional respect at the public Brooklyn college where he teaches. But whatever troubles he might have at work are eclipsed when he realizes his wife, Sally, has begun to pull away from him, both physically and emotionally.
Harlem-born Sally Peters, a mother on the verge of turning forty, is a primary school teacher who believes that joy is a learned skill, and that it takes strength to be happy. After a life of tragic losses, Sally thought she had finally found that strength when she met Justin.
But now, Sally wants something more. And Justin is angered by her uncertainty about their life and frightened by the thought that perhaps Sally never stopped loving the ex-boyfriend for whom she wrote fierce poems. Is he, Justin wonders, responsible for helping Sally find meaning in her life—a life that seems to him most fortunate? If Sally and Justin’s union is to survive, both must face the crippling echoes of their own pasts before those memories forever cloud and alter their future.
Set in a snow-covered Brooklyn, Grace is a thoughtful and lovely meditation on trust, redemption, and family. Elizabeth Nunez’s delicate prose brings the struggles, aches, and tender moments of this contemporary urban love story into vivid focus.
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Customer Reviews
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As usual, a great read from Ms. Nunez
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-01-13
I have read most of Ms. Nunez books and found them wonderful, dignified stories. This one was a very interesting story about a marraige falling apart because the people involved were seeing things differently. That may be an overly simplistic way of putting it, but don't we all sometimes find ourselves shocked to find out someone else sees the same situation completely differently than we do? I always find it intriguing to see a situation from the male and female perspective. I think most people will enjoy 'Grace'. ... and if you like Ms. Nunez' books, you may also enjoy 'When Rocks Dance'. I've had to buy at least 5 copies because people took mine. It was one of her earlier books under the name 'Elizabeth Nunez Harrell', and people often tell me they never heard of it. It is a very original work about love and voodoo set in the Caribbean.
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~Grace~
Rating (4)
Date: 2004-10-28
This is a tale of one woman's struggle to find her life's work while balancing duties as a wife and mother and a man's determination to save his relationship. Though redundant most of the time, it is still a joy to read on how this couple is able to get past their painful experiences and make their marriage whole again.
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Sensitive and memorable
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-09-03
The ending was predictable but I enjoyed the book. The characterizations made me care about the people.I'm originally from NYC so it was nice to read a Brooklyn story. I also liked that Justin was a Ph.D. It took me into the world of academia - and academic politics. Lastly, I'm 40 (like Sally) and books about midlife crises seem to be finding me! One of my few criticisms is that the lesbian was portrayed in a negative light. I would love to see more of an examination of Sally and Anna's friendship in another book, perhaps going back to their teenage years when they first meet each other. I loved the repartee between Anna and Justin. It was definitely a source of entertainment! The book began and ended within a few months of 9/11. It would have been interesting to have read about how 9/11 affected this family, being that they are from Brooklyn. That's how close I felt to this family while reading the book.
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EXTRAORDINARY!!
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-07-28
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ms. Nunez paints a vivid picture of a married couple travelling in two different directions. The angst, confusion, doubt, stress and other complex emotions relative to the modern couple, are all resonated PERFECTLY in this piece of work.
The language is smart and sophisticated... the problems? ordinary and all too relatable.
Married individuals will enjoy this one... especially if you cherish your spouse enough to do ANYTHING to make it right when things go soooo wrong!
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An observation of a marriage
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-07-12
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
What happens when you learn the "big T Truth" about your marriage and your spouse? What happens when a husband learns that the "more" a wife is looking for does not necessarily include him, that her search is not about him? Elizabeth Nunez, with all the deftness of the master storyteller that she is, has crafted a tale of a woman searching for her truth and her husband learning his. Sally wants more; Justin thinks she has enough. Sally is blinded by fear; Justin can only see her through his eyes. "Grace" is a commentary on the truth that a marriage is comprised of two individuals, that despite the oneness society places on a couple, the fact remains that the couple is made of two. Sally and Justin, like some couples, approached the point when one part of the couple begins the fight for her individuality. Some people never make the necessary waves in a marriage in order to grab a better hold onto one's individuality; Justin's mother didn't . Sally did. Justin's turning point came when he realized that his mother was surfing those same waves internally.
In this quilt of Sally and Justin's marriage, Nunez also threaded in other patches that either blinded Justin to his big T Truth or opened his eyes to it. Maybe his wife has taken a lover, just not the man he envisioned. Maybe it is jealousy spurring him to say his wife isn't a poet. Maybe he holds back complimenting his student because of his own lack of success in his dream.
Thank you, Elizabeth Nunzez, for doing it again: giving me a story of a man so focused on himself that he thinks those people in his life are just bit players in his Grecian Tragedy, people on the periphery of his drama.
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