![]() So, when she gets the call that Marika has had a fall and is incapacitated, she sees an opportunity to bond with Adam on the long drive north to Vermont, and to reconnect with her mother by nursing her back to health.īut how do you care for people you can’t understand, and who don’t want to be understood? As Lorna confronts this question, she must face secrets of her own, which she has tried to ignore by spending her life analyzing other people.Ī deft and compelling exploration of family dynamics infused with suspense, Blue Window shows what happens to people who hide from themselves-and the act of imagination it takes to find them.Īt turns warm, witty, and joyfully absurd, David Thewlis’s wicked comedy marks the debut of a savagely funny and observant literary talent. The more Lorna tries to get Adam to talk, the more he withdraws. He refers to himself as “A” for “anti-matter” and insists that Lorna do the same. Three weeks before the story opens, he abruptly returns home from college after an incident that he refuses to discuss. Lorna’s son Adam is creative, passionate, and uncomfortable in his own skin. But it’s been a struggle for nearly two decades. Now that Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, has a child of her own, she’s determined to make Marika a part of their lives. As is a darker secret Marika has repressed for nearly seventy years. The reason she left, and her whereabouts afterward, were shrouded in mystery. Her mother Marika, who survived the Nazi occupation of Holland, abandoned the family when Lorna and her brother Wade were just seven and twelve years old. ![]() From the Orange Prize–winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood comes a riveting novel about a therapist whose attempts to unlock the most difficult cases of her life-those of her son, and of her mother-reveal that the bigger the secret you’re concealing, the more it conceals you.
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