Wednesday, January 17, 2007

a wedding in december - anita shreve


Describing a gathering cum reunion among 7 former schoolmates who have mostly not seen one another for 27 years, it brings them together at a wedding taking place between 2 of them, all the more unique as it is a second marriage for both of them, and the bride has just been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Set in a beautiful mountain inn renovated by 1 of the 7, a petite, widowed lady, it describes the strings binding them together, and how 7 would have been 8 had it not been for the tragic ( ? preventable ) death of 1 of them 27 years ago. It reexplores hurts, pains, and more importantly, love, and its possibilities in these brief 7 days that they find themselves together.
A different type of read altogether, it describes how life might turn out for most of us.

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