Alice (the matriarch impervious to feelings, a woman like you would not like to meet for real), Kathleen, daughter, (former alcoholic converted in raising earthworms), Maggie (the little girl too accommodating ) and Ann Marie, the perfect daughter-gathered for a few days in the holiday home of Maine If the location is ideal, family configuration, it is the least explosive! It was feared the worst clichés galore, agreed situations, but, polyphonic novel, Maine alternates each chapter the views and lights from different angles the characters. Nuanced, they become alternately endearing and exasperating, but devilishly humans. Our opinion varies and takes us away from any form of caricature. The psychological exploration is exciting, the revelations succeed without the rhythm bow and one can only wonder how a "kid" thirty years unr can have such a human experience! If this novel, can not let go, do not become THE novel of the summer is to understand nothing!
