While I Was Gone Miller, Sue

Jo Becker is a veterinarian with a good life in suburban Massachusetts — a steady marriage, grown daughters, a reliable practice. Then a man walks into her clinic and recognizes her from a past she's never told anyone about. Suddenly she's back in the 1960s, living in a Cambridge commune where one housemate was murdered and the others scattered into silence. Sue Miller excavates the collision between who we were and who we became, between safety and passion, between the life we built and the one we abandoned. It's a slow-burn psychological novel about the secrets that calcify inside a marriage, and what happens when they crack open. For readers who loved The Secret History's atmosphere but want something quieter, more domestic, and just as unsettling.