Book Review "The Season Of Open Water"
"The Season Of Open Water: A Novel" by Dawn Clifton Tripp
“Tripp writes vivid, precise, intense prose that opens a window on a particular place and time, a family and love story, with complex views that promise to delight and move us. In The Season of Open Water she delivers on that promise, and keeps surprising us with more.” -Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies
I agree. Liked it a lot. It's lyrical, very poetic... draws you in. Good old-fashioned storytelling. I've quoted from it before. The setting: Small New England seatown, October 1927. Bridge is nineteen, headstrong, working in her grandfather's boatbuilding shop. She reminds me of Kirsten Dunst's character in the movie "Deeply"... Intrigue, rum-running, a love story & family struggles, flashbacks to even earlier times, including whaling days and WWI Europe. Definitely worth it.
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