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My father is going to die today. Im sitting on the bed next to him, leaning down, my forearm propped against his. Our palms are pressed together in a formal dance position. . . . If he werent in a coma, Id never dare do this. My father refused to dance at his own wedding. And all the years after that. My mother has never forgiven him. Mournful but strangely liberated following the death of her father, Alice leaves her mother and sister behind in New England. Returning to New York, she finds herself suddenly impatient with her old life, her numbing office job, and her self-absorbed journalist boyfriend, Jack. Alice plunges headlong into the world of ballroom dance, a forbidden pleasure in her repressed fathers eyes, and surrenders to the sweet oblivion of mambo in the arms of her dance teacher, Carlos. But when she learns that her mother and sister have embarked on their own separate journeys of discovery, she is drawn inexorably back home. Sex, wine, and dance are the siren songs that lure each woman to explore the sensual pleasures forbidden by the man who can no longer dictate their lives. He Goes, She Goes is a novel about the power of family secrets, revealing the circuitous, u

Author

Torrey, Joanna

Publisher

New York: Crown Publishers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780609601235

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities