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In her best-selling first novel, THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER, Ann Packer proved her rare talent for exploring how people cope with devastating tragedies by charting the complex consequences and emotional fallout after a woman's fiancé is paralyzed from the neck down after diving into shallow waters. Packer returns to that dark psychological territory in her second novel, SONGS WITHOUT WORDS, whose central character, Liz, has devoted herself to nurturing and motherhood, and has seemingly achieved her dream of a perfect nuclear family. But after an unexpected suicide attempt by someone dear to her, the shell of Liz's reality begins to fracture. Packer writes clean, unostentatious prose, and has a keen sense of how tribulation does not always bring out the best in us. The result is a grimly compelling work, full of pathos and unsettling truths.
| Size | | Length: | 321 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 21.6 oz |
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