![]() In her portentous voice, she drops clues to the reader that all this is in the past, and that terrible things have happened since and are probably her fault. ![]() There's also some question as to whether Amanda is entirely sane. The bond between the sisters is intense, and it's apparent through Amanda's intermittent first- person narration that she's both jealous and possessive of the prettier Mattie. Mathilda's husband, Carl, is off at the war, and, partly to quiet her mind, Amanda helps look after their toddler, Ruth. Reeling from the stresses of nursing returning soldiers, Amanda Starkey retreats to her younger sister's farm. The novel opens near the close of World War I. ![]() First novelist Christina Schwarz takes great technical risks, pulling out all the stops to relate her Gothic melodrama of two sisters in the isolated lake country of Wisconsin. The immediately impressive thing about "Drowning Ruth" is not the author's talent, though that is apparent within the first few pages, but the ambitious narrative scheme she's devised to tell her tale. ![]()
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