Having just finished a
real life memoir about finding oneself in mid-life through a retreat to the
woods (Out of the woods, a memoir of
wayfaring, by Lynn Darling), I was quite startled to find almost the same
theme in the new novel by Anna Quindlen.
Like her real-life counterpart, Rebecca Winter has rented a rural house,
sight unseen, largely because it is what she can afford and what is
available. It comes with a raft of
problems and resident raccoon in the attic through which she meets a local
roofer, Jim. Rebecca is 60 and has had a
successful career as a photographer, best known for the eponymous “Still life
with breadcrumbs,” which has become a feminist icon. But life and art have moved on and she is
wondering “what’s next.” This quietly
romantic story is really quite lovely.
272 pp.
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