One faces from the first pages a couple hiding with her daughter, why, how, because of what, or who, but it is not known from the start, you feel the delicate environment in which they live, a permanent tension that prevents them from "letting go."
An event undermines this fragile balance too and we are left months back sen to glimpse how they got there. And bam, the shock, the slap .. it may be such things other than books? Yes, without doubt, the author has not written this to chance. Brrrrr. Attention nen ask no more ny otherwise have no interest in reading.
Patricia MacDonald knows to go about keep us in suspense. Short chapters, lively dialogues alternate with reflections, comments and thoughts but the main thing is in deed. It is regrettable and rightly, what does not choose deepen laspect psychological but still works well, simple and effective way (I have not written "simplistic"). Among the protagonists, especially this is the mother who is observed and that SexEducator, the father speaks little (but very strong) and if we know what he thinks, he does not develop it (so it is a normal man. Less talkative)
What are they fleeing? A difficult situation, cruel, horrible, almost unreal and be unhealthy This person would probably deserved BE more "studied" in his pathology is described summarily (but I remember that this is not the aim of the author). I think Patricia MacDonald appreciates BE read easily, without the fuss and she is not looking to do in the psychological thriller with long explanations, nor to go into details.
By cons, for this reason, she approached with tact, a delicate subject. Without overdoing it, it highlights the difficulties to be faced when the lie is present, which can become truth for critics. How to act against the danger lorsquon may not be believed and that one wants to protect a child? And then, of course, we take in the face the torments of parents discovering linconcevable. The mother this is terribly human. She doubts she sinterroge but good mom, she forgives, she finds reasons and obscures what the mind. Is that love is blind? Is this is easier to pretend, without going to the bottom of what embarrassment, what bothers? I think so, from time to time, preferred blinders and not know because it would be too bad .. Maybe also because quon always guard, pegged to the body, the hope, the little gleam that holds .
I appreciated this novel. The writing fluid, clear events (you can point one or two improbabilities but hey, you never know, in America everything is possible) make it an enjoyable and quick read. The subject approached (we do not go into details) is original and is cold in the back.
