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Beauty and privilege, a charming, handsome husband and two promising young daughters, money, a beach house on the Pacific --- Jane has everything that Mattie thinks she wants. But Jane always works to damage what she's given. Mattie knows that better than anyone.
But even she is caught off-guard when Jane leaves her whole life behind one broken morning before dawn. And it will take Mattie awhile to see that, by driving away, Jane has forced open the questions that have always hung in the air between them --- the ones that are hardest to answer --- questions about desire and envy and integrity. These are the issues of the heart that reveal themselves, not through the bold and dramatic gestures of a woman like Jane, but in even the briefest moments and the smallest of acts.
With the same rich language and keen, compassionate eye that earned acclaim for her first novel, Lise Haines delves here into the forces that memory and touch raise in our lives and our most private hungers.
© Copyright 2009 by Unbridled Books.
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Critical Praise
"A lyrical, earnest second novel...touching... sexy summer read."
--- Publishers Weekly
"If you trust the members of your reading group, this story is well worth discussing. If you don't trust them, read it on your own."
--- Keri Holmes, The Kaleidoscope: Our Focus is You Bookstore
"Whether Lise Haines's characters are doing needlepoint, or playing miniature golf, or exchanging lives, they are fiercely intelligent, provocatively funny, and profoundly aware of the complexities of love and friendship. As SMALL ACTS OF SEX AND ELECTRICITY joyfully reminds us, here is an author who writes like no one else. Our world is the richer for her glittering work."
--- Margot Livesey
"Lise Haines's wonderful new novel, SMALL ACTS OF SEX AND ELECTRICITY, holds the reader enthralled from beginning to end as it explores the boundaries of sex, love and friendship. Very few writers could have pulled off the twists and turns within these relationships with such grace and strength."
--- Jill McCorkle
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