![]() ![]() In portraying both human and genetic cruelty, she implies a unity between nature and nurture, indisputable facts that one must accept by virtue of being human. The author (wisely) attempts to provide no explanations for life’s cruelties. In a believable irony, Ann swings between wondering if Wade’s increasing dementia is for the best, and helping him remember his daughters again, knowing the anguish that truth brings. For fate is not through with Wade… the males in his family have a curse of dementia, dying in their 50s. ![]() She becomes obsessed, imagining the details of their young lives, trying to keep their memories alive. The novel begins through Ann’s eyes as we witness her struggle to give voice to these two lost girls she barely knew. With Jenny convicted of murder, her husband, Wade, marries school teacher Ann. Her older daughter, nine year-old June, flees the scene, sparking a lifelong search that may never come to an end. ![]() ![]() Whilst out collecting wood in the mountains near Ponderosa, Idaho, Jenny murders her six year-old daughter, May. Author: Emily Ruskovich | Publisher: Chatto & Windus | Buy: Amazon | More: GoodreadsĮmily Ruskovich examines the blurred line between truth and myth in her beautifully written debut novel, Idaho. ![]()
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