By Andrew Winer
Henry Holt and Co., October 26, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9178-6, ISBN10: 0-8050-9178-5,
384 pages, $26.00
The Marriage Artist opens with two lifeless bodies on the
Then story then takes us back to 1928
Author Andrew Winer has juxtaposed the seemingly unrelated worlds of Daniel Lichtmann and Josef Pick in a carefully woven tapestry of family struggles, heartache and denials stretching over decades and continents. As Daniel starts on his journey to uncover the truth of his wife's death he's forced confront his own beliefs and what's important to him in his world. He also must learn to understand the motivations of people and their far reaching consequences.
I do recommend this book, it's a heartfelt study of family, faith, trust, truth and what we do to survive.
If I gave a "star" rating, it would be 3 1/2 stars out of 5.
Andrew Winer is the author of The Marriage Artist and The Color Midnight Made. Formerly an artist who wrote art criticism, he teaches at the University of California, Riverside, where he has directed the MFA program in creative writing. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and is married to the writer Charmaine Craig, with whom he has two daughters.
Source: This book was provided to me by the publisher at my request and in no way affected by review.
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