{"id":531,"date":"2013-10-23T13:32:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2013-10-23T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:32:45","slug":"we-are-water-by-wally-lamb-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/we-are-water-by-wally-lamb-review\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Water by Wally Lamb (review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"jacketCover bib_detail alignleft\" id=\"6586857048\" title=\"We Are Water\" alt=\"We Are Water\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9780061941023\/MC.GIF&amp;client=216-623-2800&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/>Wa<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">l<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">ly Lamb combines complex characters and an intricate plot with an array of contemporary <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">topics and timeless issues to produce this engrossing novel.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A wife and mother leav<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">es her family to pursue an artistic career and an unconventional relationship.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>A husband and father abruptly abandons his longtime profession as a psychologist.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Their children wonder at these transformations but hide secrets of their own.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>As the plot develops and the narrative shifts among characters, secrets are revealed and motives become clear to the reader.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>But even as the individual characters reach out to each other and achieve ostensible connections, secrets linger.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>In the end, each remains an enigma, known only incompletely by the others.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Essentially, Lamb has addressed the longstanding question of whether anyone can really know the truth of another person, and the answer is a resounding \u201cno.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wally Lamb combines complex characters and an intricate plot with an array of contemporary topics and timeless issues to produce this engrossing novel.\u00a0 A wife and mother leaves her family to pursue an artistic career and an unconventional relationship.\u00a0 A &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/we-are-water-by-wally-lamb-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}