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A review by bethreadsandnaps
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
2.0
I felt like Anshaw was trying to write the Great American Novel, a la Wally Lamb or Franzen or another author who follows characters through the better part of a lifetime.
The crux of the book is the accidental killing of a young girl affects this group of family and friends for the rest of their lives. The author tries to lead us to think Nick becomes an addict because of the girl's death...but he was already addicted before then. It wasn't like he was on his way to becoming a priest or anything. And Carmen and Matt's marriage...based on how it all came about, we didn't think it was going to last from the beginning, did we?
People who struggle early on tend to live screwed up lives, regardless if there's an accidental killing. Yeah, Nick's addiction issues probably got worse after the girl's death, but how much so is debatable.
This book was kind of depressing, a scant amount of humor but most was oppressively sad. This book should come with some Prozac.
I listened to this as an audiobook. I usually don't have many problems with the performance, but I don't think they picked the best reader for the book. She sounded older (although for most of the book the characters were fairly young), and her voice was rather garbled--like she had rocks in her mouth.
The crux of the book is the accidental killing of a young girl affects this group of family and friends for the rest of their lives. The author tries to lead us to think Nick becomes an addict because of the girl's death...but he was already addicted before then. It wasn't like he was on his way to becoming a priest or anything. And Carmen and Matt's marriage...based on how it all came about, we didn't think it was going to last from the beginning, did we?
People who struggle early on tend to live screwed up lives, regardless if there's an accidental killing. Yeah, Nick's addiction issues probably got worse after the girl's death, but how much so is debatable.
This book was kind of depressing, a scant amount of humor but most was oppressively sad. This book should come with some Prozac.
I listened to this as an audiobook. I usually don't have many problems with the performance, but I don't think they picked the best reader for the book. She sounded older (although for most of the book the characters were fairly young), and her voice was rather garbled--like she had rocks in her mouth.