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Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a...more

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Published July 17th 2012 by Little, Brown and Company

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Mar 03, 2013 Abby rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2012

I really wanted to like this book. The book jacket compares its contents to the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Patricia Highsmith, two writers whom I adore (and a mash-up made in heaven). I also live in Cambridge and pass many of the same streets as the book's protagonists.

However, I found most of the plot tedious and boring. The first four parts of the novel (told by Nick, Daisy, Helena, and Hughes) are mostly one-dimesional character sketches with flat dialogue and banal prose (Really, h...more

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Jun 18, 2012 Brittany rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-reads

Wow...what a debut! Somehow this book manages to exist as both beach-read and book-club material. The plot is riveting, which makes the book hard to put down, but it is the superb character portraits that kept me reading long into the night. The narrative technique used is very effective, and the author succeeds in creating multi-dimensional and fascinating characters whose inner lives are revealed in tiny bits until the picture is complete. Each of the five sections is narrated by a different c...more

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Aug 17, 2012 Augusta rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tigers in Red Weather is a great beach read - intriguing, fast paced, dramatic. I liked that each section was narrated by a different character over the 20 or so years that the story took place so they filled in missing information from the other characters' narratives. The novel started off strong and ended strong but there was a lag in the middle (specifically in Hughes section). I also felt like I wish some of the characters had been developed more (Avery) or less attention had been devoted t...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Kirsty rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: received-for-review, bookgeeks-and-nudge, read-2012, read-for-review, best-of-2012

My Bookgeeks review of Tigers in Red Weather can be found here:
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Nov 23, 2012 Jane rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Jane by: TLA ARC

Shelves: 2012-publications, chick-lit, family-issues, historical-fiction, murder-mystery, romance

This story, which jumps around time periods ranging from 1945 to 1969, follows Nick and her cousin Helena, their husbands, children Daisy and Ed, and a variety of other Martha's Vineyard residents. It has everything: murder, secrets, betrayal, regret, longing and lust. It is a great summer read about hot summer nights, gin drunk from jelly jars, and sneaking around in the shadows. This debut novel by Herman Melville's great great great granddaughter is told from 5 different perspectives. The sto...more

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Jun 02, 2013 Julia rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I wanted to like this book more than I did. I was drawn to the jacket cover photo and review. It reminded me of the Ya Ya Sisters and the close friendships they had.

This story is set in the 40's & 50's. I was immediately pulled in when I started reading. Two women who are cousins spend their summers together at the family cottage, laying in the sun and sharing their lives. They each have 1 child, the same age. Further into the book, it felt like a shallow, beach read for me and I had to skim...more

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May 23, 2013 Hannah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be once I began reading it, which I think is due to the face that the book summary located inside the front cover is misleading, or perhaps I relied too heavily on it to tell me everything that was included in the plot. This book was divided into sections and told its story from the five main characters' individual points of view. It was certainly an interesting take on the story, because I was able to see how each character perceived themse...more This book wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be once I began reading it, which I think is due to the face that the book summary located inside the front cover is misleading, or perhaps I relied too heavily on it to tell me everything that was included in the plot. This book was divided into sections and told its story from the five main characters' individual points of view. It was certainly an interesting take on the story, because I was able to see how each character perceived themselves and their world around them, and then compare that to how each person was described in the eyes of whatever character happened to be telling the story at that particular time. This enabled me to get a well-rounded view of each character, and showed that no matter what face they put on to the world, each character was suffering from something different inside (especially Nick and Helena, and their twisted relationship).

On the other hand, I thought this book was somewhat predictable at times, as well as containing a number of cliches. I felt like some of the events and happenings were a bit far-fetched and implausible (Ed's behavior leading to a life as a serial killer; Daisy and Tyler's relationship and engagement; Tyler's fascination with NIck; Nick's countless affairs that were meant to punish Hughes' one affair, which he kept apologizing for his entire life). By the time I was done reading, I hated all of the characters and could not identify with any of them. I was also confused at the author's choice to write the final chapters, which gave insight to Ed's character, in the first person. Perhaps she wanted Ed to be the pivotal, central character, thus choosing to end with his story and his thoughts in the first person, which must have been to force the reader to see things from his eyes. I did not like the fact that she made Ed wind up as a type of serial killer, forced to become evil through his family's various actions (it felt completely random), and I thought the ending was odd and inconclusive. Throughout the book, Ed kept referring to his odd behaviors as him doing his "research," which I did not quite understand. Ed's strange fascination with his cousin Daisy also made me uncomfortable, and for a while, I thought they would end up married themselves. (less)

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May 08, 2013 Ken Mannion marked it as to-read · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. recommended as a great Summer read - IT July 2101]

There are several reasons why you might pick up this debut novel. First, Liza Klaussmann is the great-great-great- granddaughter of Herman Melville. Second, the book was the subject of a five-way bidding war and ended up costing Picador the literary equivalent of an arm and a leg: the “six-figure sum”.

But the main reason is that it’s terrific. It starts after the second World War and sweeps to the end of the 1960s; it has one of those irresistibl...more

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May 07, 2013 Shawn Sullivan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am not actually sure how to rate this book because I am not sure I would recommend it to anyone. It is the story of two cousins Nick and Helena, their husbands and the children Daisy and Ed. It starts of in 1945, right after the war, when Nick's husband returns and Helena goes off to marry Avery. It quickly becomes apparent that their marriages aren't what they thought they would be.

All the characters are greatly flawed, Helena and her husband have money problems and she is a pill popping alc...more

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Apr 29, 2013 Laurel Bradshaw rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, domestic-fiction, psychological-fiction, moby-dick-project

Book Description: Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from...more Book Description: Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.
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This book falls under my Moby-Dick project because it is written by the great great granddaughter of Herman Melville. It may be brilliantly told - but I didn't find much to like about this book. It does have a certain elegance which kept it from being one star for me. None of the characters are likeable. I'm not even sure they are believable. But this was an audiobook, and I can listen to things that I wouldn't have the patience to finish reading. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion and from different points of view. If you like liars, lust, family secrets, a certain psychological tension, and dysfunctional relationships, then this probably isn't a bad book.(less)

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Mar 22, 2013 Caitriona H rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Featured in lots of reading lists recently, the title of this book won me over, although the blurb about a family and their Tiger House, a glorious old family estate on the island of Martha’s Vineyard didn’t seem particularly striking.

The Tigers are clearly very comfortably off; cousins Nick and Helena are both attractive and choose to marry men who they find very appealing. On the surface then, it is difficult to empathise with their wild struggles against their partners, lifestyle and each oth...more

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Feb 25, 2013 Laurie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, fiction, historical-fiction, mystery

2.5 stars. This was a different one and I have a lot of different feelings about it.

This intriguing story starts at the end of WWII and is written in 5 sections each of which re-canvas the same rough 20 years from 5 different perspectives. Each segment reveals more about what's really going on for these people living privileged lives in Martha's Vineyard.

The writing is sultry and sensual and overall really well done. There's two times when the style shifts and feels awkward and that's with the t...more

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Dec 19, 2012 Jo Bennie rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Narrated consecutively by five different characters: the beautiful forceful Nick, her daughter Daisy, downtrodden cousin Helena, handsome husband Nick and Helena's trouble son Ed, Klaussman effortlessly evokes the life of the glamorous top echelon of East Coast American society. Tiger House is the island holiday home of Nick and her ancestors. Their yacht bobs at the end of the dock, days are spent playing tennis, nights at the club drinking martinis. We move back and forth through time as event...more

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Oct 27, 2012 Lorca Damon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There is a part of you that, when reading Klaussmann’s upcoming novel, wants to believe that this is just another book about the lifestyles of the New England summer home set. And why not? Those old money families that work in the city but escape to their homes on the coast to rub shoulders with “their kind” have been portrayed in countless books that chronicle their playboy lifestyles. The momentary and literary escape from our own reality is refreshing.

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Oct 19, 2012 Kristin Gleeson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: literary

This book created a buzz when it was first released in the UK and on the basis of the reviews I decided to read it. Set near Chappaquidick in Mass. in the USA it follows the fortunes of Nick and Helena, two cousins whose family built Tiger House, the summer residence near the beach. The reader sees the two first just at the close of WWII, each of them waiting for their husbands, about to embark on new lifes; Helena out to Hollywood and Nick to her husband down in Florida where he's just been dem...more

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Oct 14, 2012 Allison rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am not actually sure how to rate this book because I am not sure I would recommend it to anyone. It is the story of two cousins Nick and Helena, their husbands and the children Daisy and Ed. It starts of in 1945, right after the war, when Nick's husband returns and Helena goes off to marry Avery. It quickly becomes apparent that their marriages aren't what they thought they would be. The women take their kids to their family house on Martha's Vineyard in the summers to recapture the happiness...more

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Oct 03, 2012 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I adored this novel, which I finished just this morning. Set just after World War II and ending in the late sixties, Tigers in Red Weather tells the tale of two marriages, the children from those marriages and the inescapable and often smothering bond of family.

The alluring, provocative Nick has always been stronger and brasher than her more wallflower cousin, Helena. Nick marries her soldier love and expects her life to be perfect, but once he comes back from the war, their relationship has ch...more

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Aug 29, 2012 Larraine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Although this is classified as a mystery, in many ways it is really much more. This first novel by Liza Klaussmann is much more than a beach read despite the cover. The book takes place from the optimistic end of WWII in 1946 to 1964 when things have not gone so well. The book opens with two well off young women, Nick and Helena, lazing about in their slips on a warm summer day talking about their new lives. The war is finally over, Nick will be joining her husband, Hughes as he finishes up his...more

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Aug 29, 2012 Brenda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Silly me, I scanned the reviews of this book and came away with the impression it would be a light beach read about a pair of cousins after World War II, their children, a little bit historical fiction and family drama and intergenerational perspective, something similar to J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine.

I was wrong.

Nick and Helena are two cousins, close in age, who go their separate ways after World War II comes to a close. Nick to be reunited with her husband Hughes, who is distant after his re...more

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Aug 26, 2012 Beth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was an interesting one. The book follows two cousins from the end of WWII through the 1960's and is told in multiple chapters-long chunks from the vantage point of each of the cousins, one of their husbands and their children. While it was a bit slow to start for me, I became more engaged the further I got into the story (and the further the story got away from the 1940's). One of the strengths of the book is the author's choice to tell the story from the different viewpoints of the charact...more

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Aug 24, 2012 Tina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The press release says

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return

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Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war.

This one was a really pleasant surprise. I grabbed it from Net Galley and loaded it on my Nook just before we left on vacation earlier this month and I'm really glad I did. I was prepared for a fluffy beach read, and instead was treated to a brilliantly written story of family intrigue, dark secrets, a spectacular sense of place, and well-crafted characters. Klaussmann tells us the story from each of the five main characters' point of view, and the result is breathtaking. It's five stories, all bound together, about expectations, marriages gone awry, romances dying on the vine, with each story clearly labeled in place and time so we are always at ease with where we are on the journey. The deeper into the book I got, the less I wanted to put it down.

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Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same.

Even the genre is difficult to put a label on. It can be a mystery but the mysterious elements aren't the driving force; it could be a romance but those relationships, while important, aren't pulling the train either; for some readers it will be a coming of age novel; others will view it as historical fiction- particularly those who want to re-live summers spent on Martha's Vineyard, World War II coming home stories, and growing up in the Eisenhower days; some will find it very dark but others will be able to ignore the dark parts and see it simply as a tale of generational and psychological drama. However you read it, what it is NOT is boring. It's a great read. Here's hoping Ms. Klaussmann has more to offer in the future.

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Aug 15, 2012 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction

I purchased the hardcover of this book based on a friend's glowing review, thinking I'd pass it along to my mom after I read it. I'm so glad I didn't wait for the paperback or read the e-book because I know this book will get lots of mileage among my mom's friends after she reads it. It's just the kind of book you want to pass around and discuss after reading! It would be a great book club read (if only I had a book club...)

This is a story of family dynamics and relationships spanning a couple...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Michelle Cristiani rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: straight-up-novels

Maybe I spend too much time here on goodreads, but as I read a book I imagine how I will rate it, and what my review will sound like. My rating of this story - about a family on Martha's Vineyard and the secrets they disclose over a few decades - ranged from 1-4 stars at any given time, and I settled on 2 just because goodreads calls that 'it was ok,' and that's pretty much how I feel about it. It kept me guessing (plus) but left me with a lot of question marks upon finishing (minus).

There aren'...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Beatnik Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Nick Derringer and her cousin Helena grew up spending their summers at their family beach house in Martha's Vineyard, dubbed Tiger House. During the Second World War, the pair toughed it out together, using ration books to buy food and painting lines onto the backs of each other's legs when they couldn't get nylons. When the war ended Nick resumed her married life as her husband Hughes returned from war. Her normal, boring, married life. Nick was convinced...more http://www.cozylittlebookjournal.com/...

Nick Derringer and her cousin Helena grew up spending their summers at their family beach house in Martha's Vineyard, dubbed Tiger House. During the Second World War, the pair toughed it out together, using ration books to buy food and painting lines onto the backs of each other's legs when they couldn't get nylons. When the war ended Nick resumed her married life as her husband Hughes returned from war. Her normal, boring, married life. Nick was convinced she was destined for so much more. Helena, on the other hand, longed for nothing but a normal, boring life. When the war ended she married her second husband, Avery Lewis, who moved her to Hollywood and continued to follow his own dreams, or perhaps obsessions. When the cousins return to Tiger House in 1959, each with an adolescent child in tow, their lives are irreparably altered when their children--Daisy and Ed--discover a body near Tiger House, the victim of a grisly murder.

The story is told from each of the characters' perspectives separately, skipping back and forth from the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's (although each chapter is clearly labelled with the date and character, so there's no confusion whose version of events one is reading). It's not a mystery, though some mysteries are certainly revealed. It's more like a portrait of a family, one that reveals hints of darkness beneath an otherwise pleasant facade. It's a slice of upper middle class American life on the brink of the 1960's, with secrets bubbling just below the surface and everyone struggling to assert themselves within the confines of "normal" suburban life.

Throughout the novel several characters reference the work of American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). (In fact the title comes from a Stevens' poem.) He was a poet who believed that a poem shouldn't talk about a thing, it should be the thing itself. I can think of no greater tribute to him than this novel. Tigers in Red Weather doesn't talk about the human condition. It shows it. It reveals it slowly, in this portrait of these characters, subtly and poetically. There are no lectures or soliloquies in Liza Klaussman's work. The characters simply are. She allows each of them the space to reveal themselves, offering just enough of a glimpse into each one's thoughts that the reader can see them for who they are, filling in the blanks of the things that go unspoken among them. She trusts her reader to discern the whole from only part, to see the world by its fleeting shadow, to understand her characters from their subtleties and lies as much as from their actions and words. She creates characters that stay with you long after the last page.

I've read novels in which the author leaves no blank unfilled. Ones in which the author heavy-handedly insists that we know every detail about every character, and makes sure that we the readers are told how we should feel about every character, every problem. Ones in which there is no work at all for the reader to do, other than complete the novel and agree with the author on every point or else leave the book unfinished on our night stands. Liza Klaussman is not that author. Her book, like a poem, is lovely and poignant and values the shadow as well as the light, the subtle as well as the obvious, the silence as well as the proclamation.

Disclaimer: I received a digital galley of this book free from the publisher from NetGalley.com. I was not obliged to write a favourable review, or even any review at all. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.
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Aug 04, 2012 Karen morsecode added it · review of another edition

Like Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan, which I posted about earlier this month (see post), Tigers in Red Weather concerns itself with an extended family and their interpersonal relationships using time spent together at a summer cottage (this time on Martha's Vineyard) as a catalyst. The novel is also told variously from the perspectives of the individual family members, but Tigers in Red Weather has a series of first-person narrators rather than one third person omniscient.

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Jul 26, 2012 Alecia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The title of this book did not give me much of an indication of what would be between the covers. I was very pleasantly surprised to find an author who is able to portray her characters with such realism and unpredictability. The story line jumps back and forth in time, from 1959 to the late 60's, but that flows pretty well. Nick (female) seems to be the main character, but this novel is told from five different points of view. Somehow, to me, she seemed to be the strongest one. They all were ve...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Amelia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I picked this book up partly because of the good reviews but also out of a petty desire to see if the author had gotten her location details right (I live on the Vineyard). I soon realized that the book was so intimately about the family that very little of the world around it mattered much, and that with one trivial exception (she wrote "Vineyard Haven lighthouse" instead of "West Chop light") the smattering of local details were correct. I couldn't really judge the feeling of the society becau...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Justin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In 1986, long before the existence of Ipods and MP3s, the cassette was king. In Liza Klaussmann's latest mind-bender we're transported back to this time and indoctrinated into the adamant cult of the tape trader. This popular music sharing method was the primary vehicle for listeners to gain access to up and coming acts in a world pre-dating the internet. Klaussmann's protagonist Roman Pridgen, is a man with his finger on the very pulse of this craze, often taking pride in being amongst the firs...more

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Jul 21, 2012 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Looking to read something completely different? Try Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann. This novel is sure to surprise and in never quite what the reader expects it to be. The novel opens by introducing readers to cousins Nick and Helena when they are young twenty-something brides at the end of World War II. Nick, not exactly beautiful but with a lust for life and excitement is set to travel to Florida to meet her husband Hughes, who has been serving in the Navy. Helena, more beautiful but...more

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Jul 15, 2012 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: work-review-related-reading

This is a tale of a family, a Martha's Vineyard society kind of family, starting with the end of WWII and moving on through the late 60s. The first third of the book is dominated by Nick, a controlling young woman who has married who she was supposed to marry, and hasn't had a happy day since. She does what she must while yearning for other things (and other men), and produces the required child, Daisy. Then a murder in the the community shakes things up, for everyone.

Next we hear from Helena, N...more This is a tale of a family, a Martha's Vineyard society kind of family, starting with the end of WWII and moving on through the late 60s. The first third of the book is dominated by Nick, a controlling young woman who has married who she was supposed to marry, and hasn't had a happy day since. She does what she must while yearning for other things (and other men), and produces the required child, Daisy. Then a murder in the the community shakes things up, for everyone.

Next we hear from Helena, Nick's cousin, though really like a sister to her, gets her say. Her first husband died in the war shortly after their marriage, and when we meet her, she is on her way to Hollywood to marry her second husband, a filmmaker. It doesn't take her long to find that he is actually a grifter and is obsessed with a dead actress. Helena drifts into alcohol and drugs, taking a short break to have a baby to see if that would improve her marriage. It didn't, and she finds her son to be rather strange and frightening, so once more she moves into the arms of booze and drugs. She is visiting her cousin in Martha's Vineyard the summer of the murder, and it was in fact her son Ed and Nick's daughter Daisy who find the mutilated body. Sunny Daisy comes through it well, but Ed seems to get even more strange and worrisome. Helena's resentment of Nick begins to grow in to a complicated hate.

Hughes, Nick's husband, takes over the story for a bit, offering fresh perspective on things already known, as well as some secrets of his own. Then Ed get's his turn, finishing the book with the stark confirmation and clarification of so many of the doubts and mysteries the whole family has held for 25+ years.

This is not a cheerful book in any way. However, the writing is mesmerizing, with crisp dialog that makes you feel as if you are right there with the characters, and drives you to turn page after page into the wee hours of the morning. This is a debut novel, and a very impressive one. I'll be eagerly looking for more from Klaussmann in the future.
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Liza Klaussmann worked as a journalist for the New York Times for over a decade. She received a BA in Creative Writing from Barnard College, where she was awarded the Howard M. Teichman Prize for Prose. She lived in Paris for ten years and she recently completed with distinction an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, in London, where she lives. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of H...more

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