Anita Shreve is one of my favorite authors and this book shows why. In her eleventh novel, Shreve covers the topic of newborn abandonment. A father and daughter out for a walk in the snow, discover a newborn baby wrapped in light sheets and frostbitten. The investigation that follows catches this father and daughter up in a situation they were running from in the first place, human interaction.
This is a light read, with simple sentence structures and small chapters. I finished the book is less than a day. It is 305 pages, but there are spaces throughout the book that symblolize the passage of time and the print is larger than normal. Be warned, if you read this book, you'll want to read the rest of Anita Shreve's novels.
Similar Novels: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
Length: 305 pages
Copyright: 2004
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