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In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden: A Novel
Kathleen Cambor. Farrar Straus & Giroux: 2001 (hardback). ISBN: 0374165378. 256 pages.
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We'd like to take this opportunity to introduce the perfect summer novel--as
absorbingly addictive as it is powerful and significant, the perfect book to take to the beach or on a 10-hour flight.
Cambor's moving historical novel is set against the backdrop of a not-so-perfect Memorial Day weekend 112 years ago, the
weekend in 1889 when a shaky dam perched precariously above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, finally broke down, killing more than
2000 people below. Cambor employs a large cast of characters, some purely fictional, others the fictional representatives
of the real people that managed to turn a blind eye to a big problem. However, because she makes you care about each and
every one of these people, almost instantaneously, you won't have any trouble remembering who's who. This is one of those
novels that's dangerous to begin unless you've got some free time, because otherwise you're going to get slightly annoyed
at everyone and everything in your life that keeps you from reading it straight through to the end.
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