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Lying With The Dead (2009)

by Michael Mewshaw(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1590513185 (ISBN13: 9781590513187)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Other Press

review 1: Employing elements of Greek tragedy and contemporary situations, this family drama hods interest so totally it is almost impossible to put down. Each of the fully grown children of the family matriarch is damaged in some way, thanks to their traumatic childhoods. Emotional and physical damage that follows them through their entire lives. Summoned to their mother's home they face their pasts and futures changed forever, High recommended.
review 2: To be able to tell a story from the perspective of three distinct voices is a remarkable feat. Although the plot is familiar and perhaps slightly predictable, Michael Mewshaw does an admirable and convincing job of making siblings Maury, Candy, and Quinn as real as any member of my own family. Mewshaw makes it unav... moreoidable for the reader to sympathize and care for each character, to understand their motivations, understand how a family tragedy has profoundly shaped their troubled lives and scarred their fragile psyches, and empathize with their hidden desires to be free from the shadow of a truly wretched matriarch. It kept me going at a break-neck pace, and I'm sure you'll read it with the same appreciation and enjoyment as I have experienced. less

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