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Drowning Ruth
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About the Book
Christina Schwarz grew up in Wisconsin. She and her husband live in Los Angeles. Drowning Ruth is one of those rare events – a debut novel highly acclaimed which becomes widely read. A selection of Oprah’s Book Club in 2000, Drowning Ruth attracts an ever wider circle of readers and admirers.
Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed.
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family´s farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge--she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake. When Mathilda´s husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds that Amanda has taken charge of Ruth and the farm, assuming her responsibility with a frightening intensity. Wry and guarded, Amanda tells the story of her family in careful doses, as anxious to hide from herself as from us the secrets of her own past and of that night.
Ruth, haunted by her own memory of that fateful night, grows up under the watchful eye of her prickly and possessive aunt and gradually becomes aware of the odd events of her childhood. As she tells her own story with increasing clarity, she reveals the mounting toll that her aunt´s secrets exact from her family and everyone around her, until the heartrending truth is uncovered.
Guiding us through the lives of the Starkey women, Christina Schwarz´s first novel shows her compassion and a unique understanding of the American landscape and the people who live on it.
Anne Tyler has published seventeen novels over the past forty years and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986 for The Accidental Tourist and in 1989 the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons. Her fans see a modern-day Jane Austen and are addicted to her writing style and marvelous sense of humor. But most of all, they fall in love with the genuinely quirky characters Anne Tyler so skillfully evokes, and her ability to make you care about them as they face the small triumphs and tragedies of everyday life.
The Accidental Tourist is Anne Tyler’s best known and most loved novel. Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts when he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular world–and thrusts him headlong into a remarkable engagement with life.
The Accidental Tourist was made into a highly regarded film directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis.
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