I enjoyed this story. Short. Easy to read. Characters so engaging that I felt I could call them up and see how it was going after I’d finished their tale.

Still, it isn’t prose to make you suck in your breath. And though important questions are asked by the narrative, they aren’t handled with grace or particular insight. I am glad they were asked though.

August 2004 – I really enjoyed this book. It was the first Anita Shreve book I’ve read and I am now planning to read more of her stuff. I don’t know that it is great literature or anything, but I found it to be an engrossing novel and I liked the character development (at least of the two primary characters, I suppose some of the others were not too fleshed out. Anyway, I thought it was good. :-)