Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000
Pages: 176
Rating: Recommend
Synopsis: In this luminous story of family life—the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening—the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England privilege. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have.
Review: I liked the vignette format, but on the flip side I attribute that style to the disconnect I felt with the characters. No matter, the loosely autobiographical nature of this novel works in the author's favor.
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