All We Lack, by Sandra Moran
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It begins with a bus crash. Maggie is a funeral director from Indiana who lives a double life. Bug is a ten-year-old boy in the Pennsylvania foster care system who is sent to live with an aunt he doesn’t know. Jimmy is a former paramedic and prescription drug addict on his way to meet a woman he met online who thinks he’s a successful doctor. Helen is a Chicago insurance investigator who is leaving her marriage in search of the woman she wants to be. Four strangers, all traveling to Boston in search of better lives, are tied together in ways they don’t even realize. Each are trying to fill the void of what’s missing in their lives. Sometimes it takes a tragedy to overcome all that we lack.
All We Lack, by Sandra Moran- Amazon Sales Rank: #1203399 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .57" w x 5.51" l, .71 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 252 pages
Review "The concept intrigues, pulls you forward and keeps you glued throughout.” —Curve Magazine
About the Author Sandra Moran was an author and assistant adjunct professor of anthropology at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. A native Kansan, she had worked professionally as a newspaper journalist, a political speech writer, and an archaeological tour manager. In her novels, she strove to create flawed characters struggling to find themselves within the cultural constructs of gender, religion, and sexuality. Despite being an avid marathon/ultra marathon runner, gym rat, and living healthy, she lost her battle to an aggressive cancer in November 2015, just weeks shy of her forty-seventh birthday.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Review: "All We Lack" by Sandra Moran By Carleen It is not uncommon for me to re-watch TV shows and movies, or to reread books. I have a number of books that are on my "I'll always want to reread this book" list. Some of them are comfort books. These are books that I read when I want to visit old friends and feel warm and fuzzy. Some are cathartic books. These are books that I read when I know I need to have a good cry. Some are what I call "brain books." These are the books that I read when I really want my brain to work and my perspectives to be shifted.Yes, I will return to these books now and then. Very rarely, however, do I finish reading the last page and then immediately begin again at the first page.When I finished All We Lack (Bedazzled Ink) by Sandra Moran, I immediately turned to page one and started reading it again.All We Lack is the story of four people on a bus headed for Boston. Each has a specific reason for making this trip. Each is reaching out for a better, more fulfilling life. Each is hoping for a future that will fill the voids of the past.All We Lack is that rare book that falls into all three of my "reread" categories.After the first read, Maggie, Helen, Bug, and Jimmy were like old friends. I really got to know them. Moran has given her readers a really wonderful character study of these four people. We're allowed to delve deeply into the lives, minds, emotions, and complexities of each person Moran highlights in the novel. We're able to follow along as each character examines her or his life and reflects on what has been missing.At the same time, All We Lack provided me the opportunity to cry along with the characters. To identify with the pain they've felt in their lives. I know the loneliness, the guilt, the confusion, the fear, the loss that these characters have experienced. So, I was able to take the emotional journey by their sides and tap into my own experiences. I've seen the things a grandchild should never see. I've known the things a child should never know. I've felt the guilt over something I've done. I've told the lies to hide my own imperfections. Tapping into those experiences as I read each character's story allowed me to release some of my own demons, so to speak.Moreover, All We Lack put my brain to work. The story is not told in a traditional, linear fashion. While there is a clear through-line with a beginning, middle, and end, a great deal of the story is told via flashbacks. This adds incredible texture to the novel. It's rich and it's layered. And it engages my brain differently than a more traditionally constructed story would.One of the things that truly impresses me about Moran's work is that it's never predictable. If you've read her previous novels Letters Never Sent and Nudge, then you know what I'm talking about. (And if you haven't read them, why not?! Read them!) Moran tackles interesting, complex issues and explores them in stories that are equally interesting and complex. So, if you have read Letters Never Sent and Nudge, don't expect All We Lack to look or read the same way.Well, there actually is something that All We Lack has in common with Moran's previous novels. Despite the layers and complexities and non-linear story-telling, it's so very easy to follow along and know exactly "where" the characters are in the story. As I mentioned earlier, much of All We Lack is told via flashbacks. At times, there are flashbacks within flashbacks. Moran seems to write these with ease, taking the reader gently along through the characters' memories. The transitions in and out of the flashbacks were both seamless and jarring...but all by design. Consider: You're on a bus or a plane or a train, contemplating your reasons for traveling or mulling over something you've recently experienced. In doing so, your thoughts wander and soon you're reliving memories from childhood or college or a previous job. Then something brings you out of those ruminations - a PA announcement, turbulence, a child crying. Moran is able to write that! At no point did I think, "Oh, the flashback is starting." It just happened. And I went right along with the character. This is talent, my friends.While each character's story is told from a third person point-of-view, each has a very distinct voice. There isn't one narrator telling all of the characters' stories. There are four narrators. This really adds to the depth of each character. Maggie, Helen, Bug, and Jimmy are four very different people with very different issues and experiences. Had their stories been told with the same narrative voice, that richness would have been lost. Their voices would have been flattened. That would have been a shame...and quite out of character for Moran, who has a talent for creating characters that are wonderfully three-dimensional.The secondary characters in All We Lack are simply wonderful. They don't have their own narrative voice, but they are not voiceless. We come to know them through the four main characters. Each has her or his own place in the story. Even the characters we only "see" once have an impact. They are important. They are necessary. Don't overlook them.Do you know what else is important and necessary? Outstanding writing skills. Moran has those in spades! It is remarkably obvious that Moran pours over her writing and contemplates the choice of each word she adds to the story. Nothing is out of place. Nothing is superfluous. If a word is on the page, there is a reason for that word to be there. You won't find anything that can be considered "filler" in All We Lack. Every scene builds tension and adds to the story. Flashbacks are appropriately revealing. Dialogue is natural and believable. Scenic descriptions are detailed and nuanced. Really, it's quite wonderful.Prepare yourselves. Once you start reading, you won't want to stop. You won't be able to stop. But don't think you'll be able to read All We Lack quickly. Set aside the time. Free yourself from potential interruptions. Have your drinks and snacks ready before you start reading. You won't want to stop reading just to grab some cookies and milk. Allow yourself to sink into the story. You won't regret it. I didn't.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Compelling Story of Intertwined Lives By LisaTu All We Lack is a story of overlapping and intertwined lives that are connected at various points in time through different people and intersecting experiences. A defining moment - a bus crash - provides the most striking experience that links the characters. While this is the lead-in to the book, the broader story explores how matters play out in the days before this pivotal event. Through flashbacks, we also learn how the characters became the people they are now, and how each reached a point in their lives in which they are missing something, and searching for a way forward. The tension builds as the characters get closer and closer to their final destination, Boston. But, for each of the characters, their destination is not only a physical one, but also a point of truth and revelation concerning key relationships and personal developments in their lives.I felt that Sandra Moran was very successful in building a feeling of foreboding and uneasiness as to how things will turn out for the characters. However, overall the story has a sense of optimism. All four main characters are moving toward something, but each of their futures is uncertain, and unexpected events alter their lives forever. None of the characters are fully honest with themselves. They also aren't entirely truthful with those who currently, or might potentially, play an important role in their lives.The aspect that I found most interesting in All We Lack were they ways in which the characters' lives intersected - sometimes this was at times that were significant in their lives, other times in minor ways, and in some cases, their lives intersected in more ways than one. However, the characters' connections, impact and involvement in each other's lives were often unknown to them. Through this network, which is invisible to the characters, but visible to the reader, we see that a person's actions can have a lasting impact on others' lives, or just touch them for an instant. It was intriguing to see each of these connections become apparent. It also seemed to me that the web of connections between characters mirrored the network of bus routes or roads as we see them laid out on a map - tangled, uneven, and overlapping - but all will eventually cross paths.In my view, an important theme running through the book relates to people's need and desire to move from tenuous or incomplete connections with others, towards deeper, meaningful relationships with family members, friends, or a romantic partner.I thought that Sandra Moran developed each of the four main characters in an exceptional way. In fact, the characters are so interesting that I would have liked to read even more about each of them and wished the story could have been even longer to go into their lives in more detail. They were so different from one another, but it was easy to develop an understanding for the difficulties each of them face, even if I could not always agree with their behavior or actions. All four main characters are unsettled in some way. The older three main characters - Maggie, Helen, and Jimmy - each harbour guilt from their pasts, and some also feel guilt about their current behaviour. They all have a lot of baggage (And by that I mean emotional baggage, rather than suitcases, although they have a couple of those as well!) In the case of Bug, the events he witnesses in his young life will burden him forever, although he is on his way to a new, safer life.The character of Maggie stood out to me, not only in terms of her unusual job as a funeral director, but also because of the contrasts in her life. Maggie faces death every day, but she's also haunted by a death in her past. She thinks that, because of her closeted life, she can only ever have short, anonymous one-night-stands with women. But what she finds she truly needs is a more meaningful connection, although she fears that she may have lost this possibility with the woman she truly desires.I also found that there is a strong link between the title and the story. The main characters, as well as some of those who are significant or peripheral in their lives, are all missing something. As Maggie asks her brother, Ben, about his direction in life, "So what's missing? What do you think you lack?" (p. 88 of the paperback edition). The main characters each realize that they have an emptiness in their lives, but what they are moving toward is not necessarily what they need to fill that void. Self-awareness of their own difficulties is just the beginning of the issues they need to overcome.Although the All We Lack initially takes us backwards in time, it is, in a wider sense, a story about moving forward in life. With so many twists and details, there is lot to reflect on after finishing this book. I would recommend it to anyone looking to try a unique work of literary fiction.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Hang Onto Your Hats! By Leona Owens Sandra Moran has done it again. This is a book you cannot put down. The main characters are superbly portrayed. The entire read is an emotional roller coaster...a ride that you will not be able to forget. So, hang onto your hats, pick up a copy of "All we Lack" and enjoy the ride!
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