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Found this at the library. Her latest novel. I just finished it on my lunch; I've been reading like mad on the train since Tuesday morning. I have concluded that I will read anything that Lisa Carey writes: novels, stories, essays, VCR manuals, whatever. Her work is incredibly good. In this book, and in Love in the Asylum, her characters are so damaged and frail, so sad.
This book is about a family, told through the eyes of the 15-year-old daughter, Lena (in first-person) and the younger, ten-year-old son, Owen (in third-person). Their older brother Hugh ran away from home five years ago, and their lives kind of shut down. Their parents' lives are a mess, and the kids are a mess, and it gets really bad for them all. But the writing is excellent, and the story is excellent, and the book was just really terrific.
I love Lisa Carey. I still have one more of her novels to read, The Mermaids Singing, which my mom bought for me and which is sitting and waiting on my shelf.
This book is about a family, told through the eyes of the 15-year-old daughter, Lena (in first-person) and the younger, ten-year-old son, Owen (in third-person). Their older brother Hugh ran away from home five years ago, and their lives kind of shut down. Their parents' lives are a mess, and the kids are a mess, and it gets really bad for them all. But the writing is excellent, and the story is excellent, and the book was just really terrific.
I love Lisa Carey. I still have one more of her novels to read, The Mermaids Singing, which my mom bought for me and which is sitting and waiting on my shelf.
