One of my first friends at college was Jenny Milchman. So proud of her for realizing her college dream of becoming a published author. And favorably reviewed in the NYTimes! Small towns promise many things: security, tranquillity and a sense of community. But all it takes is an act of violence for a small town to take back those promises. That’s what Nora Hamilton learns in Jenny Milchman’s quietly unnerving novel, COVER OF SNOW (Ballantine, $26), when Nora’s husband, Brendan, inexplicably hangs himself. Brendan was a popular member of his hometown police force in Wedeskyull, a rugged outpost in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. But Nora will always be a stranger here, she realizes, when everyone stonewalls her efforts to uncover whatever secrets in her husband’s past drove him to kill himself. Although the solution to these mysteries is too obvious to raise goose bumps, Milchman reveals an intimate knowledge of the psychology of grief, along with a painterly gift for converting frozen feelings into scenes of a forbidding winter landscape. (That forbidding winter landscape just may have been inspired by frigid walks along Annandale Road!)
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:04:27 +0000
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