To Be Sung Underwater : A Novel (Hardcover)

from sruszala

Beautifully written--so many sentences I re-read just for their tone and fluency. Thank goodness for that, because the main character, Judith, is selfish and self-centered. I wanted to buy her fixation on her first love, but couldn't. Predictable ending too foreshadowed multiple times throughout ...

from SistersGrimm

This novel by Tom McNeal is about Judith, a young woman who, when her parents divorce, moves from Vermont to a small college town in Nebraska where her father is a professor. It is also about Willy, a young man she "abandoned, and yet never quite left behind." The story is about two worlds: the s...

from eenerd

Lovely read about Judith and Willy, star-crossed lovers whose fairy-tale relationship ends after Judith goes off to college in California, leaving Willy behind. Almost thirty years later, Judith's marriage is unraveling and her life is feeling hollower as each day passes. Willy enters her mind, a...

from SamSattler

At some stage in their lives (sooner for some than for others), most people will reflect upon how differently things might have turned out if they had only made one or two early decisions differently. It is, after all, the decisions one makes while still too young to understand their real impact ...

from pdebolt

Willy Blunt is Judith Toomey's first love. When she leaves a small Nebraska town to attend Stanford, they vow eternal devotion, but their lives take divergent paths. In her mid-life, Judith decides to reconnect with the love she can't forget despite a marriage and child. This is not a unique prem...