The author's concern is less with keeping readers in suspense than with exploring the damage inflicted by the human drive to protect not only oneself but those one loves. Yes, Ruth almost drowned too, and yes, Amanda was hiding an illegitimate pregnancy, but the story never turns to melodrama. Yes, there are plenty of awful secrets to share or hide. The circumstances of that drowning are slowly revealed, and Schwarz avoids most of the pitfalls of the unravel-the-awful-secret genre. In the years that follow, Carl and Amanda share responsibility for raising Ruth, maintaining an uneasy truce even as he struggles against her evasions to understand exactly how and why Mattie drowned. One bitter winter night shortly before her wounded husband, Carl, is due to return from WWI, Mattie falls through the ice and drowns in the lake that surrounds their island farm. In 1919, when unmarried Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee under duress, she goes home to her sister, Mattie, and three-year-old niece, Ruth, in rural Wisconsin. The plot revolves around a mystery, which is well handled but secondary to the characters' development. With quietly powerful prose and carefully nuanced description, a first-novelist creates a satisfying fictional world inhabited by complicated people painfully coming to terms with their common history.
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Deeply suspicious of America’s loose culture, at home Addie’s parents speak only Yiddish, mostly to bicker. “We had a stove, a table, a few chairs, and a saggy couch that Mameh and Papa slept on at night.”They eat a lot of potatoes and cabbage. “In 1915, there were four of us living in one room,” she begins. From there, she leads us through a series of episodes that have all the color and vibrancy of a plastic bouquet.Īddie was the plucky daughter of immigrants who escaped starvation and violence in Russia to settle in a tiny Boston apartment. Asked by her granddaughter to talk about how she got to be the person she is today, Addie takes us back to 1900, the year she was born. If this allegedly spontaneous memoir is any indication, she’s also the most well-organized 85-year-old woman in the world. Addie is cheery, alert and full of needlepointed wisdom. Anita Diamant’s new novel,“ The Boston Girl,” comes to us as the transcript of a tape-recorded monologue delivered by an 85-year-old woman named Addie Baum. |