Behind
Closed Doors
By
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Kimberla
Lawson Roby is the author of nationally best-selling novels “Too
Much of a Good Thing,” “A Taste of Reality,” “It’s
a Thin Line,” “Casting the First Stone,” and “Here
and Now.” Roby’s recent novel, “Behind Closed
Doors,” is about two African-American women, their friendship,
and their individual relationships with their husbands.
Regina
Moore and Karen Jackson are lifelong best friends and together they
have shared the successes of being highly educated and married to
wonderful husbands. Regina and Karen both have satisfying careers
and live in beautiful, upper-class homes in the suburbs of Illinois.
Their lives are essentially dreams come true and their marriages
make their lives complete. Regina is married to Larry and Karen
is married to John. Both couples are childless and with Regina and
Karen in their late 20’s and with full careers, neither woman
particularly has parenthood in mind at this stage in her life.
At
the beginning of the novel, Regina and Karen both begin having doubts
about their marriages. Regina’s husband is frequently having
“nights out with the boys,” or so he claims, and Regina
is hurt that she and her husband are not spending as much quality
time together. Karen is having problems with her husband, too. Larry
has been spending time at the racetrack and he is regularly losing
his entire weekly paycheck betting on the horses. Each woman realizes
that her idyllic existence is on the brink of change and neither
one is happy.
Regina
and Karen share a special friendship and their friendship deepens
as they both learn shattering truths about their men, who are turning
out to be not-so-perfect-husbands after all. Clearly, nothing is
going to be the same for either marriage and Regina and Karen face
the painful prospect of starting over. As doors are opened and their
lives start anew, Regina and Karen learn the power of friendship,
honesty, and the true meaning of love and commitment. I highly recommend
“Behind Closed Doors,” as it is a well-written novel
with considerable depth that explores friendship and love.
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The
Book |
Avon Trade / HarperCollins |
September
21, 2004 |
Trade paperback |
0-06-059365-2 |
Fiction/African-American
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Excerpt
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NOTE:
Profanity and sexual situations |
The
Reviewer |
Shannon
I. Bigham |
Reviewed
2005 |
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