A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton’s?Waiting for the Night Song?is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.
Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined.
Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals.
A startling and timely debut,?Waiting for the Night Song?is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed. It is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise.
雪兔子Mary
隱瞞招致更多隱瞞,秘密中誕生更多秘密,謊言里藏著更多謊言… 而它們的后果很可怕。隱瞞實(shí)情的人會(huì)被纏擾得難以得到安寧,也會(huì)因?yàn)椴辉俦恍湃味ピ?jīng)的朋友。 小說(shuō)的敘事就像一根線,把"present day"和27年前的"that summer"緊緊織在一起。Cadie,Daniela,Garrett,Clyde,Juan,Dolores,Sal……所有人的謊言都終于在那場(chǎng)大火里和森林一同被燒成灰燼。J并不是Cl殺的;S找到了27年前CK和DG的地圖并藏起了那支槍?zhuān)籇G雖然看到了事發(fā)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)但為了家庭瞞著丈夫和女兒偷偷和G、CK埋葬了J;…… 所有真相最終總會(huì)浮出——讓人意想不到的真相。
IndigoBunting
牽扯非移的話題,獨(dú)特的視角
emellea
關(guān)于自然保護(hù),Piper說(shuō)的東西真的說(shuō)服我了。氣候變遷,原本的森林沒(méi)辦法適應(yīng),于是燒掉重來(lái),昆蟲(chóng)和鳥(niǎo)幫它恢復(fù),長(zhǎng)出新的適應(yīng)性更強(qiáng)的植被。這個(gè)思路是對(duì)的嗎?有時(shí)候需要引發(fā)一場(chǎng)小的山火才能阻止更大的火。是取舍吧,是要舍已經(jīng)死去的森林還是Garcia家的房子和其他居民的房子,一樣的道理。書(shū)里面很多都是在講選擇,是膽量和運(yùn)氣。膽小慌亂,所以他們編織出了一張秘密的網(wǎng),old secrets, regrets, fear, sorrow. C和G各放了一把火,是愛(ài)和堅(jiān)定,信念。如果長(zhǎng)大了就真的能夠長(zhǎng)大做出正確的決定,straight the curves, right the wrong… 那該多好……