I can’t say overall that I was impressed with any of the characters. I appreciated the slight knods to those major events in history, but none of them had too big of a role to play aside from WWI, which gave one of the characters an excuse to be absent from the main event that the book is centered around. The story takes place in the early part of the 1900’s as we see WWI, the Spanish Flu epidemic, and the Great Depression make brief cameo appearances in the background of the story. I started to give it a 3.5 rating but ended up taking it down an entire point when I considered it more. “It must have been a dream.”īut Ruth maintained that she had drowned, insisted on it for years, even after she should have known better. Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time, the narrative gradually and tantalizingly reveals the dark family secrets and the unsettling discoveries that lead to the truth of what actually happened the night of the drowning. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake.
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