Summary
Anita Shreve: The Weight of Water
A little family cruise with my brother-in-law and his girlfriend Jean seemed like a perfectly good idea. If she can spend a relaxed weekend with her husband and five-year-old daughter and at the same time do her job as a journalist-photographer and film the scene of a gruesome crime that took place in 1873 on the now uninhabited island of Smuttipse off the coast of New England, it sounds great. What could possibly go wrong? Basically everything. While Jean looks for the ideal composition through the lens of her camera and looks for the necessary material in the local archives, the tragic story of the Norwegian immigrant Karen, the only surviving witness to the double murder, will unfold before her. At the same time, another small drama is unfolding behind her back. Is the brother-in-law's girlfriend Adaline messing with her husband, a famous poet, whose carefully hidden history marked his entire life? Little by little, both Jean in the present and Maren in the past will find themselves in a vortex of emotions that they cannot control.
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