For fans of the film "The Big Chill", Anne Tyler's "Dinner at Homesick Restaurant" and Siri Hustvedt's "What I Loved", in her fourth novel, "Carry the One", Carol Anshaw explores the after effects of one night's terrible trauma on three siblings over 25 years. In the early hours of the morning, foll[...]
""When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.""
Following a devastating moment in the hours after Carmen's wedding, three siblings and their friends move through the next twenty-five years under its long shadow. Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood[...]