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
隐瞒招致更多隐瞒,秘密中诞生更多秘密,谎言里藏着更多谎言… 而它们的后果很可怕。隐瞒实情的人会被缠扰得难以得到安宁,也会因为不再被信任而失去曾经的朋友。 小说的叙事就像一根线,把"present day"和27年前的"that summer"紧紧织在一起。Cadie,Daniela,Garrett,Clyde,Juan,Dolores,Sal……所有人的谎言都终于在那场大火里和森林一同被烧成灰烬。J并不是Cl杀的;S找到了27年前CK和DG的地图并藏起了那支枪;DG虽然看到了事发现场但为了家庭瞒着丈夫和女儿偷偷和G、CK埋葬了J;…… 所有真相最终总会浮出——让人意想不到的真相。
IndigoBunting
牵扯非移的话题,独特的视角
emellea
关于自然保护,Piper说的东西真的说服我了。气候变迁,原本的森林没办法适应,于是烧掉重来,昆虫和鸟帮它恢复,长出新的适应性更强的植被。这个思路是对的吗?有时候需要引发一场小的山火才能阻止更大的火。是取舍吧,是要舍已经死去的森林还是Garcia家的房子和其他居民的房子,一样的道理。书里面很多都是在讲选择,是胆量和运气。胆小慌乱,所以他们编织出了一张秘密的网,old secrets, regrets, fear, sorrow. C和G各放了一把火,是爱和坚定,信念。如果长大了就真的能够长大做出正确的决定,straight the curves, right the wrong… 那该多好……