Sleepwalking In Daylight
by Elizabeth Flock

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Once defined by her career and independence, stay-at-home mom Samantha Friedman realizes her days have been reduced to errands, car pools and suburban gossip. It's a role she always assumed she wanted to play, but now Sam has a nagging awareness that this might be all there is. She deals with a husband who shows up for dinner but is too preoccupied for conversation, and a daughter swathed in black clothing and Goth makeup who won't talk at all.

Believing she's an adopted mistake, seventeen-year-old Cammy has fallen into sex and drugs, and pours herself into a journal filled with poetry and pain. On parallel paths, mother and daughter indulge in desperate, furtive escapism—for Sam, a burgeoning relationship with her supposed soul mate, fueled by clandestine coffee dates and the desire to feel something; for Cammy, a secretive search for her birth mother punctuated by pills, pot and the need to feel absolutely nothing.

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Flock's novels have been hailed as "haunting" (Booklist) and "tremendously touching" (Kirkus Reviews). With Sleepwalking in Daylight, she perceptively reveals the inner workings of a modern marriage and the complicated mother-daughter relationship with unflinching honesty, delivering her most powerful, provocative story to date.

Reviews:
"Elizabeth Flock offers us a haunting look at the challenges and responsibilities of raising a small family in suburban America. This is a cautionary tale about the perils of narcissism and living in denial. Once you pick it up, you can't not read it to the very last page. Sleepwalking in Daylight will be remembered for a very long time."
-- New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Frank

"Have you ever opened your eyes and realized that you've been sleepwalking through your life? If so, this is the novel for you. Sleepwalking in Daylight is heartfelt and poignant, unique and memorable. Elizabeth Flock's characters feel real, her dialogue is first-rate. The story is rich and resonates long after the last page has been turned. This novel isn't about the perfection of life, but rather, how life's imperfections, make it all the more precious."
-- John Shors, bestselling author of Beneath a Marble Sky

"[Sleepwalking in Daylight is] filled with perceptive, dead-on insights into both teenage angst and the common pitfalls of marriage in the middle years."
-- Booklist

"Great read! Terrific."
-- Parenting Magazine

"A profound tale..."
-- Harriet Klausner

"Another strong characterization [from Elizabeth Flock, who] adroitly enters the psyche of a mother and daughter."
-- Melsysplace.blogspot.com

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ISBN-13: 9780778325130 | Published by Mira Books | Publication Date: 2009-02-24
Hardcover | 368 pages | US $21.95