![]() ![]() The cover copy tells us the main kernel of the story-Nicky and her dad, who live on the outskirts of a small New Hampshire town, find an abandoned baby in the woods. Telling the story in the present tense rather than the past affirms that the Nicky is, at core, the same person she was back when, and yet the events brought on momentous change in her life. On the second page of the story, the narrator, Nicky, tells us she's 30 but the events she's relating occur when she is 12. So I think that people who have experienced the kind of grief that keeps you from getting out of bed will really appreciate this book, and those who have had blissfully uneventful lives will miss a lot of the subtlety in it. I am glad I didn't base whether to read this book on the reviews here because I think a lot of people didn't "get it," and maybe that's Shreve's failing, but I've observed that, by and large, people don't really understand grief until they experience it first hand, unfortunately. ![]()
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