The World Below

The World Below
by Sue Miller

Wonderful story of a woman, her parents lives and her grandparent's lives. Back and forth from the present and the past it was delightful and thought provoking to hear the sensitivities of other times and thoughts.

Much of the story was of the grandfather who was especially touching to me. What a nice man, so generous and utterly reasonable and forgiving. As a man he admitted his faults, and as a doctor he admitted them too. He was the doctor to the mother of his future wife Georgia as her mother died from cancer. Before he courted his wife, he had sent her off to a sanitarian they refer to as the san for T.B. She had an interesting relationship with a young man there who was more seriously ill. I loved the journal this old past life woman wrote, I wish I could do the same thing.

The world below was about the town that may have been below the favorite lake and the world below the protagonist.