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This was enjoyable -- she's a great writer, in terms of ear for language -- but I found it far more complex than her first two novels, and consequently a little too ambitious. There was so much going on behind the scenes in terms of plot that I felt we lost some character development. Glad I read it, but it won't be a re-reader like Between, Georgia.
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Laurel sees dead people; so when a transparent young girl, apparently soaking wet, appears at the foot of her bed, she lets the ghost lead her to the window. She’s been sleepwalking again, but when she awakens, Laurel sees that there is a girl floating in her backyard pool.
This is a modern-day Southern Gothic novel. Jackson is a talented writer and fills her novels with wonderfully eccentric characters, as well as family secrets, dark undercurrents of poverty, alcoh ...more
Laurel sees dead people; so when a transparent young girl, apparently soaking wet, appears at the foot of her bed, she lets the ghost lead her to the window. She’s been sleepwalking again, but when she awakens, Laurel sees that there is a girl floating in her backyard pool.
This is a modern-day Southern Gothic novel. Jackson is a talented writer and fills her novels with wonderfully eccentric characters, as well as family secrets, dark undercurrents of poverty, alcoh ...more
When Laurel discovers the body of her daughter's best friend floating in her swimming pool, she knows that her carefully ordered life is about to be shattered. In order to find out the truth about what happened to the girl, Laurel knows that she needs someone that will come and force the truth out of people. She needs her sister, but having her there may also pull a part the family. Laurel must confront old family secrets in order to protect her daughter and find herself. I was really sucked int
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This book was interesting and the ending was good. I thought it rambled a little and every relationship in the book is complicated.
John, Brandon and I listened to this on the way home from Indiana. A few plot twists kept us guessing. A few interesting threads tie in with recent books 1) Married 13 years (also: Blue Diary); 2) Quilting (Alice's Tulips) 3) Planting tulips as a representation of hope for the future (Alice's Tulips).
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I give this 3.5 stars. Lots of small plots intertwined within the bigger, main plot.
Dec 12, 2009
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