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Carry The One (2012)

by Carol Anshaw(Favorite Author)

3.12 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1451656939 (ISBN13: 9781451656930)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: Hated the ending, just kind of thrown together it seems."Their alliance was deep, formed in the trenches of childhood where they were each other's landsmen, comrades in strategy and survival, in warding off the contempt of their parents, and in protecting their brother. So she and Carmen always approached each other carefully, with respect--minor diplomats, one from an arctic, the other from an equatorial nation, attempting to understand each other's customs, participate in each other's holidays.""She felt as though she had been bumping her around with sandbags. It had been so long since she had traveled anywhere farther than a couple of time zones that she'd forgotten about jet lag.""I hate that it doesn't matter if we see each other. There's still this connection, bet... moreween me and him because we were both in the car. Like in arithmetic. Because of the accident, we're not just separate numbers. When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.""Maybe Alice had been looking for the wrong person, maybe the mother she had sought for so long had turned a corner in the supermarket when Alice was small and the person she caught up with in produce was a woman who was willing to pitch in a little, but would always remain a stranger."
review 2: YES! MOAR THIS! When this comes out in March, I command you to procure it! Hokay so. A bunch of people get in a car and leave wedding reception drunk and stoned and stupid and young and they hit and kill a little girl (this is not spoilerific, this is on the back of the book, so.). The rest of the book is about their lives and how each individual deals with the guilt and how they move on (or don't). It spans about 20 years and is THE SHIZ when it comes to showing how people carry their histories. ALSO the writing is beautiful and insightful, which are my two favorite things for writing to be. If you liked A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, you would probably like this. less

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