Got this book today at the Christ Church Book Sale!

Why did Ruth's mother, Mathilda, drown on that fateful night in 1919 and Ruth survive? That is the central question that this novel sets out to answer. Mathilda's sister, Amanda, who has been nursing soldiers in Milwaukee (it is right after World War I), has returned to the family farm in rural Wisconsin. Mathilda and Ruth are there to help her return to a normal life. Yet a year later, Mathilda's husband returns from the war to find his wife drowned and his sister-in-law raising his daughter. So continues the tale through 1941, as we watch Ruth grow up and try to remember what happened that winter night. Along the way, Ruth befriends Imogene, who has a closer connection to the family than Ruth can imagine. The story is recounted partly through flashback and moves from first-person to third-person narrative. What results is a gripping tale of sisterly rivalry, family loyalty, and secret histories.

Finally read this after it has been sitting on my shelf for such a long time! A new plan for 2010 is to read some of the older books instead of always reading the newest ones.
So I picked this up because it is quite thin and quite "old" and I liked it.
I ngeneral I like famil stories and dark secrets.

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English Meetup

This book was left over at the English meetup and will be taken to the OBCZ Haydn Kino soon. Thank you very much for bringing this book to the meetup.

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I will leave this book on the OBCZ - shelf in Haydn Kino.


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