Vorab-RezensentenShirley Abbott

Like a modern-day Edith Wharton, Shirley Abbott articulates the inner thoughts of eight characters-good people grappling with hard choices and the sacrifices they must make to find love. With striking introspection, Abbot's The Future of Love is a novel that runs deep into the heart of our need for commitment from friends, lovers, and family. Set in New York in 2001, mostly in a Greenwich Village brownstone, the book opens with Antonia waiting for a visit from her daughter, Maggie, and grand-daughter. The complications of the relationship between Antonia and Maggie; between Maggie and her husband, Mark; between Mark and his lover; between Antonia and her lover, Sam; between Sam and his wife; Sam and his grand-daughter, his grand-daughter and her lover... all make for a moving and emotional year with this smart and compelling cast of characters. All of them may be looking for love, but they all grapple with their choices and the sacrifices they must make to find it.