Literature -- 5 stars
Isaac is mourning his murdered teen-aged son. Lorrie's young son committed suicide after confessing to the murder. Isaac and Lorrie are next door neighbors. Into this uncomfortable situation arrives Evangeline, pregnant and abandoned by her mother. Either of the sons could be her baby's father. Their shared histories guarantee a shared future, but first these three have a lot of learning to do. ----- Ms. Tompkins has written a beautiful and sensitive story of how secrets left hidden can erode into both love and hate. Each of the main characters evolves in its own way, without ever losing the sense of their being part of a whole. Ms. Tompkins never sugarcoats, instead exposing each truth in all its plainspoken ugliness allowing the characters to accept or not, to forgive or not, to move on or not. It is a story steeped in an unrelenting realness, ending with an uneasy feeling of hope instead of a complete resolution--and nothing in life is more real than that.
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