When Hattie Darling's husband, Ben, dies on his first night home after a business trip, she is devastated. But when she finds evidence that there had been another woman in his life, Hattie is unable to mourn Ben, but decides to find the other woman and confront her. The confrontation leads to a suprise and an eventual understanding. At the heart of this unusual book is the unexpected intertwining of the lives of two women.
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"A fascinating psychological tale..." -- BOOKENDS
A gentle tale of two women ... I recommend this to readers who enjoy novels that explore family relationships. -- BookBrowse.com
A gentle tale of two women ... I recommend this to readers who enjoy novels that explore family relationships. -- BookBrowse.com
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KAREN BLOMAIN, a native of Pennsylvania, has received two PEN USA Syndicated Fiction Prizes, numerous fellowships and residencies. She has published four volumes of poetry and has edited an anthology of regional poetry. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and has conducted writing workshops in France, Austria, Russia and throughout the United States.
Blomain and her husband, the writer and photographer Michael Downend, live in Maine and Pennsylvania.
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A Trick of Light is a beautifully accessible novel with specific characters and events shaped by the real world. They are touching and familiar, and the voice that tells of them is honest, respectful, and unpretentious. What is particularly impressive is the construction of the novel's chapters. In some cases, they are no longer than a prose poem, bringing our attention to the smallest nuances, pauses, gestures, that collectively bring a character to life. In a sense, one could argue that the book works cinematically in the way that it moves gracefully from scene to scene, but it is the poetry of the language that really shines through and makes each "scene" satisfying and moving. What is more? It's a page-turner, a piece of literature that is immediately engrossing and one I found very hard to put down.
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Trick of Light Illuminates,
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Trick of Light is a subtly layered book that takes a reader effortlessly through the tragedy and nightmare of two families' lives. The protagonist Hattie is so vivid, I felt like cheering when she reaches insights and her hard fought victory. It is a tribute to Blomain's writing that I could suspend disbelief when Hattie chooses to stay and help her deceased husband Ben's second family. And it is remarkable that the cad in question is also revealed to have hidden depths, and that Ben's betrayal of his first family is not only plausible, but makes a kind of sense. After reading Season of Lost Children, the second book of a planned trilogy,I went back to read Trick of Light and I'm sure glad I did. The plot unfolds like petals opening on a flower, all the main characters are richly drawn, and Blomain uses a settings in New England as eloquently as dialogue.
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Awesome, intelligent, and heart-wrenching,
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Odd, that a book that leaves me with more questions than answers should be so satisfying, so moving, so thought-provoking. Karen Blomain traces one woman's horrifying discovery of her late husband's double life through the decisions that woman makes, the impact of those decisions on her friends and family, and the painful growth she experiences as she gives comfort to those she came prepared to hate. Beautifully drawn contrasts between urban and rural life, reflections on the pull of duty in family bonds, and the unexpected rebirth of passion, all these and more await the reader. And yet, perhaps the greatest gift of this enchanting narrative is the reader's inevitable grappling with the "what if's". How would I handle challenges such as these? What if the protagonist had made other choices? What, after all, is really important in life?
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