This Wild Silence - Hardcover

Blesdoe, Lucy Jane

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ISBN 10: 1555837735 ISBN 13: 9781555837730

Publisher: Alyson Publications Inc, 2003

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"I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christine, narrator of Lucy Jane Bledsoe's newest novel. And Christine and her sister, Liz, are indeed opposites. Christine, a doctor in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, is buried in her work and cannot connect meaningfully with any of the women with whom she falls in love. Liz, married to her high school sweetheart, Mark, has an outwardly perfect life, but her fierce control is beginning to falter. Both sisters share a secret, one that has bound them tightly to each other for decades. Timothy, their little brother, disappeared 30 years ago, and the sisters' guilt over this event continues to haunt them both. During a winter expedition in California's Sierra Nevada mountains with Liz, Mark, Lenny (their current juvenile delinquent charge), and Mark's assistant, Melody, an undercurrent of tension bursts into open hostility when a sudden storm traps them all on the mountain. The sister's lifetime of deception is gradually and heartbreakingly revealed, and finally, in this harsh and dangerous environment, secrets are exposed and lies give way to the kind of healing truth that provides a possibility for hope.

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Christine and her sister, Liz, are opposites. Liz, married to her high school sweetheart Mark, has an outwardly perfect life, but her fierce control is beginning to falter. Christine, a doctor in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, buries herself in her work and cannot connect meaningfully with any of the women with whom she falls in love. Although she desperately wants a relationship to work with her current lover Flo, she has no idea how to make it succeed. But the sisters share a secret, one that has bound them tightly to each other for thirty years. Timothy, their little brother, disappeared while Christine and Liz were supposed to be watching him at a lakeside campground, and their resulting guilt and deception have haunted both sisters throughout their lives. On a weekend cross-country skiing expedition in California's Sierra Nevada mountains with Liz, Mark, their current juvenile delinquent charge Lenny, and Mark's assistant Melody, an undercurrent of tension bursts into open hostility when a sudden storm traps them on the mountain.

Through Lucy Jane Bledsoe's graceful writing, the sisters' lifetime of deception is gradually and heartbreakingly revealed, and finally, in this harsh and dangerous environment, their secrets and lies give way to the kind of healing truth that provides a possibility for hope. Bledsoe has crafted an exceptional and exciting novel of adventure, guilt, and forgiveness that is exquisitely moving and remarkably honest.

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