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Our Picnics In The Sun (2013)

by Morag Joss(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385342764 (ISBN13: 9780385342766)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Delacorte Press

review 1: This is not a traditional mystery/thriller, but given the first page Epigraph, I raced through this book not sure where it was going and what the "stranger's" role would be. It is also a psychological study of the relationships between husband/wife and parents/son and also about values, in this case the parents have opted for a minimalistic, live off the land style and their son has no interest in this simple life. Of course, the simple life is not so simple. Very interesting novel but potentially more interesting to parents with grown children and the "boomer" generation.
review 2: Very seldom do I award a book 5 stars. This book, while not uplifting, is a masterpiece. Complex, absorbing, insightful, sad and haunting. Joss can really tell a story and "get i... morento" how a stroke victim feels, a lonely child, a self-absorbed husband and father and a disturbed mother and wife. The setting and environment is claustrophobic and a bit confusing but as the end of the story approaches, the threads become clearer, easier to see. I love Morag Joss's body of work! less

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