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Disquiet by Julia Leigh

Synopsis
Olivia arrives at her mother’s chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family is joined by Olivia’s brother Marcus and his wife Sophie, but this reunion is far from joyful.

Review
I found this to be an odd book, but that’s mainly from the character Sophie and her obsession over her dead baby, which she carries around with her to the point of decomposition. I guess I just don’t understand the hoopla and comparison of the author with greats like Ian MacEwan. Leigh’s writing style reminded me of MacEwan’s but that was about it. The book was very creepy to me in places. I sensed a weird tension between some of the family members that left me uncomfortable.

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2009: 01/12
POSTED BY: Teresa
CATEGORY: Contemporary
Drama
TAGS: australia
author: julia leigh
death
domestic abuse
family drama
france
publisher: penguin
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Red River by Lalita Tademy

A riot in a small Louisiana town has forever intertwined two southern families, struggling to subsist and prosper in a country wrought by Civil War. Reconstruction has been won for the newly freed black, but the whites in Colfax are not going to make it easy for them to take their proper place in society. Red River follows through three generations of African Americans and their struggle in the aftermath of the terrible wreckage, yet through adversity we often find our strength as families find out what they are truly made of and beat the odds.

This is a chronicle of endurance that is both redolent and gripping, telling the saga of one of the deadliest accounts of racial cruelty in Southern history. The words leap off the page and beg to be read! Well Done!