Loved this book. Across 1900 to 1977 the story follows a family in India that suffers an affliction in every generation - a death by drowning. A tale that turns on climate catastrophes, disease, accidents and at the heart a family - whose story begins with a child bride. A big book worth reading.
Three part story over three generations partly based on the authors life in the persona of Catt Greene. Each generation trying to better themselves. Last part very bleak picture of America’s rural poverty and drug world. Confronting in parts but a powerful and well written novel.
A tale set on Irelands west coast in a fishing village. A baby boy is found abandoned on a beach and is taken in by a fisherman and his family. The story covers two decades and follows the boy he becomes and the complexities of the relationships within that family and the community that has taken him in.