As recollections of her past collide with new revelations, Clara must question everything she thought she knew, to come to terms with the truth of her history and to summon the strength to navigate her future.Despite the fact that there are more books published annually than ever before despite claims that the commercial publishing industry has sacrificed all pretenses of quality to churn out marketable content despite the increased strength of indie publishers despite inexplicable successes like Where the Crawdads Sing (unreadable), unlikely self-published blockbusters like Fifty Shades of Grey (unreadable, sometimes funny), and eyebrow-raising flubs like American Dirt (unreadable, racist) despite all of your friends with unfinished manuscripts stashed away in desk drawers and despite the droves of applicants to your university's MFA program, one fact is certain: it's harder than ever to publish a novel.Ī number of critics, myself included, have painted a bleak portrait of commercial publishing as an industry closed off to all but a select few who were privileged enough to attend the right boarding schools, universities, Hamptons cocktail parties - hardly promising for the scores of armchair hopefuls working on the next "great American novel" across the country.
We see her now, sequestered in an institution, questioned by men and women who call her a different name-Diana-and who accuse her husband of unspeakable crimes.
We see her growing up, raised with her sisters by the stern Mama and Papa G, becoming a poised and educated young woman, falling desperately in love with the forbidden son of her adoptive parents. In chapters that alternate between past and present, the novel slowly unpeels the layers of Clara’s fractured life. The last thing her husband yells to her is to say nothing. Without warning, her home is invaded by armed men, and she finds herself separated from her beloved husband and daughters. In this powerful psychological suspense debut, when a woman’s life is shattered, she is faced with a devastating question: What if everything she thought was normal and good and true.wasn’t?Ĭlara Lawson is torn from her life in an instant.
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