The Drowning Season by Alice Hoffman- 2014 - 212 Pages
Alice Hoffman works I have read
The Marriage of Opposites- 2015
"Everything My Mother Taught Me" - 2016
"The Book Store Sisters" -2022
The Foretelling - 2006
"Conjure" - 2014
Aquamarine- 2001
The Ice Queen - 2006
Property Of -1977
Magic Lessons- 2020
Skylight- 2007
The Red Garden - 2011
The Drowning Season- 2014
"Esther the Black is eighteen years old and ready to leave the Compound, the collection of cottages on the North Shore of Long Island where she has lived all her life. But as July turns to August and her family braces for the height of Drowning Season, she realizes that she may not be able to escape her family’s legacy.
Her father will find a way through the locked sea-wall gate and try to drown himself in the harbor, her mother will be too hung over to leave her cottage for days at a time, and her grandmother will refuse to say a single kind word.
Esther the White left home when she was just a girl, fleeing her abusive parents across a frozen Russian river with a pocketful of stolen jewels. Life has taught her to be cold and unyielding, but in the heat of another fraught summer at the Compound, she feels her resolve melting away. Cohen, the landscaper and chauffeur responsible for keeping her son out of the water, looks at her with a desire she finds harder and harder to resist. Her granddaughter’s name may be an insult to tradition, but does that mean the poor girl should never feel her grandmother’s love or know her story?" - From the Publisher
This was not one of my favourite Alice Hoffman work. I liked it enough to finish The Drowning Season but from an unknown to me writer it might have been left Unfinished.
Here were my issues, maybe just trivial. I found the constant repetitive use of the names "Esther the Black" and "Esther the White" got tedious. I did not find any of the characters particularly interesting.
The next of her works I will read is her just published The Invisible Hour.
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