Marcia K. (marwan) reviewed on + 496 more book reviews
A New York Times notable book-I couldn't put it down once I really got into it. It was a very different, intricately detailed book about real feeling and conversation. I just finished it today and I can't stop thinking about it. So I would call it a very different thought provoking experience!
How do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strenght or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparison with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller. At the age of twenty-three, Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easy going high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considereing leaving it and her fiance' Mike behind. But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable, and yet more necessary than ever. The Dive from Causen't Pier animates this dilemma and Carrie's startling response to it-with the narrative assurance, exacting realizm, and moral complexity we expect from the very best fiction.
How do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strenght or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparison with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller. At the age of twenty-three, Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easy going high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considereing leaving it and her fiance' Mike behind. But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable, and yet more necessary than ever. The Dive from Causen't Pier animates this dilemma and Carrie's startling response to it-with the narrative assurance, exacting realizm, and moral complexity we expect from the very best fiction.
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