East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon
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Plot Summary of East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon

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Forge, August 2001, 400 pp.
ISBN 0765300796

    Leigh is married to a senior congressman. They have three beautiful children and a fantastic home in Virginia. Yet Leigh is totally miserable. Her husband is always on the run and never has time for her. The little time they spend together is celibate because he's impotent at least with her. Her esteem has sunk to an all time low when a postgraduate exchange student from Denmark stays with them for a year.

    From the time they set eyes on each other, Leigh and Erik have a red hot molten attraction for one another. Leigh resists going to bed with him until she finds some condoms in her husband's bag. She knows then that he is cheating on her because she had a tubal litigation years ago. Thus Leigh and Eric have an affair but have much to overcome, including another woman, if they want to make a life together.

    Carla Bellacera has written a fabulous relationship drama in which people make bad decisions for the right reasons, a practice that leads to heartache for everyone concerned. EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON is a beautiful love story that will appeal to fans of Belva Plain and Laura van Wormer.

Harriet Klausner

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Review Analysis of East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon

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Plot
Time/era of story - 1980's-1999
Forbidden/mismatched love? Yes
How mismatched? - old gal loving young guy
Marriage/Married Yes
Marriage subplot: - seduction of someone else's wife
Struggling with whom? - Husband
Family focus? Yes
Family, hating Yes
Family, loving Yes

Main Male Character
Profession/status: - student
Age/status: - 20's-30's
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
Sex has good effect on him Yes
Sex makes him - blissful - sensitive
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Female Character
Age/status: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - homemaker
How sexual is this person? - very picky
How romantic is this person? - very romantic
effect of sexing - confused - scared - guilty
Sex has bad effect on her Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast
Europe Yes
European country: - Scandinavia

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
What % of story is romance related? - 40%
Focus of story - many multiple characters
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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