Tigers in Red Weather
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Klaussmann, Liza, PUBLISHER: Bond Street Books, Summer seemed to arrive at that moment, with its mysterious mixture of salt, cold flesh and fuel. ong>Nickong> and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In ong>theong> days following ong>theong> end of ong>theong> Second World War, ong>theong> world seems to offer itself up, and ong>theong> two women are on ong>theong> cusp of ong>theong>ir 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while ong>Nickong> is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from ong>theong> war. Soon ong>theong> gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not ong>theong> man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from ong>theong> war distant, his inner light curtained over. On ong>theong> brink of ong>theong> s, back at Tiger House, ong>Nickong> and Helena--with ong>theong>ir children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover ong>theong> victim of a brutal murder, ong>theong> intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. ong>Theong> members of ong>theong> family spin out of ong>theong>ir prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about ong>theong>ir lives will ever be ong>theong> same. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weaong>theong>r is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.