I accidentally bumped into this book and so glad that I did! Winner of the 1982 National Book Award in the First Novel category, Dew’s writing is just as fresh today as it was 30 years ago.
When exactly is it that we do grow up? For many, it is not when the clock strikes 18 or 21 or even married with children. This is a story of a woman whose husband stays behind while she and her young children return ‘home’ to the Midwest each summer. It is this summer that releases Dinah into her own adulthood, “…she was a grownup and she had to contend with a terrible fate – she had mortal children and she had to recognize it and deal with it every moment of her days.”
“Hailed for its richness and emotional power,” the author writes feelings…the reader is immersed in the intimacy of family life; subtle, leisurely and lush but never sentimental.
Highly recommended for adults and book groups.
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