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Harper
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
Featuring: Anna Oh; Orion Oh; Ariane Oh
576 pages
ISBN: 0061941026
EAN: 9780061941023
Kindle: B00BATIK02
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We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True. After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Ohβwife, mother, outsider artistβhas fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh familyβs hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandoraβs Box of toxic secretsβdark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohsβ lives. We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohsβnonconformist, Anna; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest. It is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art. With humor and compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.
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