I recently finished reading our book club pick for this month, Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz. This story takes place starting in the Winter of 1919 where Amanda Starkey is nursing soldiers from the war back to health. However, circumstances cause her to leave her nursing duties and return to her family's farm on a remote lake. She is there with her sister and three year old niece until one night when tragedy happens and her sister is found drowned beneath the ice covered lake... When her sister's husband returns home wounded from the war he finds things are a little strange and no one seems to know why his wife was out on the lake at night and drowned... not only that but his sister-in-law cares for his daughter with an intensity that is over the top.
The story shifts from one person's perspective in the story to another and with flash backs to what led up to all the events... This is not what I would normally pick up to read but I will say that for this style of story it is very well written. It is a tragedy with all the human failings and sadly not much redemption in the story. It eventually grips you and you want to see how it will all work out. Well written and engaging. If I was scoring on that alone I would give it a higher rating but since again I am not a big tragedy reader where there is no redemption in the story, I liked it ok hence the lower score ( 3 1/2 stars).
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