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This story of a woman finding answers to a lifelong question approached the idea in a unique manner. When 70 year old Georgianna decides to return to the Wisconsin camp where her life changed forever, and take along her family, only one child was looking forward to the trip.
The book explores many issues including racism, loss, grief, and parent-child relationships. I liked the book but didn't feel there was much tension in it, and the modern day mystery was not resolved - just accepted without any repercussions.
The murder from the past was also solved for Georgie, and I hope the author intended to show some resolution in the way she presented it. I liked the way that the author developed the story but found some of the situations unrealistic, and the characters a a little too stereotypical. One family relationship was not revealed until too near the end and it seemed contrived to me. That child had issues which were glossed over and I felt could have been incorporated into the story better.
I want to thank BookBrowse and W.W.Norton for an ARC of the book in exchange for an honest review

This story was interesting and then it lost me. I wanted to know more about her parents and what it's like to live with her grandparents. It was just okay for me. I just wanted more. I wish we could have known more about the other characters at the camp.

Georgianna Grove is about to celebrate her 70th birthday when she receives a letter that takes her back to a trip that occurred when she was four years old. During that trip her mother was murdered and her father confessed to the murder. She decides to recreate the canoe trip and takes her reluctant family with her. Can she find the answers to her mother's murder?

I think there were too many characters in the book which resulted in no character being fully fleshed out. I had to re-read parts of the book to try to figure out who everyone was and how they fit into the story.

The author goes back and forth in time and uses different narrators.

There are themes of racial discrimination and bigotry and these too are not well-developed.

Without giving anything away, I found the ending wholly unsatisfying.

It took me a while to develop an interest in reading this book. It was a good story and kept me guessing who killed Georgianna's mother right up to the end. I really enjoyed the ending and Thomas's final pages of his memoir.

I wanted to like this book. The thesis is compelling: return to a place you experienced as a child to confirm that a situation did or didn't happen the way you were told.

Georgianna Grove celebrates her 70th birthday by compelling her family to revisit a camp site where her father murdered her mother. A professor of Cultural Anthropology, Georgie knows how to bring the past alive, and her family, a son and two daughters and grandchildren, must accompany her. The trip involves canoes and bad weather. Dangers abound and accidents happen. They arrive at the camp and secrets are unearthed. But are they the secrets Georgie wanted told?

Like I say, a compelling thesis. But unbelievable. The son doesn't want to go in the first place, yet he does, even though he is working on the Obama campaign and checks in as often as he can. Once this character finds himself in a fearful situation, he bangs his fists against the earth. Unlikely. The son's wife, an actor working out of town, is unfortunately not with the group as she might have provided some needed support for her husband.

The two daughters live with Georgie, as does Thomas, in a house called the House of the Uncurables where stray people are free to wander in, to stay, to cook, to hang out until they are ready to leave. In this day and age, unlikely.

The most interesting character is a 13 year old grandchild named Thomas who seldom attends school and spends his time writing comic novels.

Everything that could go wrong does and no one has the sense God gave a goose.

I wanted to like the book but I struggled to finish it. It seems unrealistic, which brought me out of the story, and only Thomas was worth the time.

This book conveys family members interacting with each other. The story is also about finding the truth and expectations. Georgie has no specific expectations of the results of the families trip to Missing Lake, Wisconsin. A trip to know the truth of her mother's death. Georgies son Nicolas is very negative and expects the worst.

Interestingly, the Georgie's father was a Lithuanian immigrant acclimating to this country, but his heart is still back with his parents during the Nazi war.

At times, I became distracted by the disjointed sentences and paragraphs that did not flow. Maybe this is the authors writing style. Thomas, Georgies grandson, was my favorite character. He lives in his own world, writes in his journal his version of life and the truth of his great grandmothers death.

There are many elements to this story, but the emphasis is really on a daughter's journey to find answers to her mother's murder many years ago. The daughter, Georgianna, is a well developed, likable character. I found her story interesting from the very beginning. I especially enjoyed her relationship with Thomas, her young grandson. I thought all the characters were well developed, the story is interesting, and the writing is a pleasure to read. I loved this book, until the end. I went back and read the last part to make sure I had not missed anything. This can be a great read for book clubs. As far as I'm concerned there are lots of things to discuss.

The beginning of this novel was not particularly promising. I found it confusing, many names, varying tone, attempts at quirkiness that didn't fit the story or the characters. It did improve a bit as the mystery at the center of the book became more central, but I felt it wasn't up to the standards of other books I've read by Shreve. Ultimately just ok.