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In middle age, Annie Oh--wife, mother, and outsider artist--has shaken her family to its core. After twenty-seven years of marriage and three children, Annie has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy, cultured, confident Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
Annie and Viveca plan to wed in the Oh family's hometown of Three Rivers, Connecticut, where gay marriage has recently been legalized. But the impending wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora's box of toxic secrets--dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs' lives.
We Are Water is an intricate and layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs--nonconformist Annie; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest Oh. Set in New England and New York during the first years of the Obama presidency, it is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.
With humor and breathtaking compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience in vivid and unforgettable characters struggling to find hope and redemption in the aftermath of trauma and loss. We Are Water is vintage Wally Lamb--a compulsively readable, generous, and uplifting masterpiece that digs deep into the complexities of the human heart to explore the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.
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- Title We Are Water
- Author Wally Lamb
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, New York
- Date 2013-10
- ISBN 9780061941023 / 0061941026
- Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 14.99 x 3.81 cm)
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Themes
- Geographic Orientation: Connecticut
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Lgbt
- Topical: Library Reads
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Lesbians
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013431133
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- BookPage, 11/01/2013, Page 0
- Entertainment Weekly, 10/25/2013, Page 105
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2013, Page 0
- Library Journal, 06/01/2013, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 06/01/2013, Page 78
- People Weekly, 09/23/2013, Page 67
- Publishers Weekly, 11/04/2013, Page 0
- Romantic Times, 10/01/2013, Page 46
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