A review by meli65
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller

3.0

It was an unusual story (a 15-year-old has an affair with an old man) told from a variety of viewpoints and for me the emotions seemed to ring true. The lack of reality in the everyday details bothered me though -- do 30-year-old women work as underwear models for Marshall Field? Would an independent bookstore owner not notice that $10-20 were missing from her cash drawer every day? Did conscientious mothers drive around with their two-year-olds wearing a seat belt in the front seat of their car in the 80s? That stuff kept distracting me from the story.