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'This comforting summer read has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships' REESE WITHERSPOON
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • “A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory.” —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe
In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of all that awaits them. By 2016, they have four radically different daughters, each in a state of unrest.
Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator turned stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor, finds herself pregnant…
The plausibility challenge of the premise is solved by the amazing dialogue. They discuss class and social awkwardness and past relationships in such interesting, intricate ways that the reader completely understands why they're drawn to one another.
Delilah arrives on her brother's doorstep with a secret. She hasn't
seen him in five years. He ran away from their family long ago for
reasons no one talks about and she still doesn't understand. The
stress of raising his teenage daughter alone sometimes makes David
envious of his deliberately childless friends, Tim and Sara, but
they're runaways too, harboring secrets of their own. Blood & Water
tells their stories and traces the deep connections between this
unlikely group of friends.
