Tell Me Who We Were
Book Feature - Tell Me Who We Were by Kate McQuade
Book Feature - Tell Me Who We Were by Kate McQuade
HBL Note: This book cover is so haunting! I have so many questions about this book after seeing the cover, which is really the sign of a well-designed cover, isn’t it? That hair. Those hands coming from behind, seemingly out of nowhere, with a death grip on the girl’s arms. I am so intrigued and I hadn’t even started reading about the story, yet. Then I read the description below and I knew it had to be featured on my blog. This book is going to make some reader really happy. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Tell Me Who We Were by Kate McQuade
From the publisher:
Infused with the keen insight of Joyce Carol Oates and haunting power of Kelly Link, a radiant collection of linked stories that explore the vulnerability, resilience, and hidden desires of women, following six girls over the course of sixty years, from their first semester at boarding school to the twilight of their lives.
It begins with a drowning. One day Mr. Arcilla, the romance language teacher at Briarfield, an all-girls boarding school, is found dead at the bottom of Reed Pond. Young and handsome, the object of much fantasy and fascination, he was adored by his students. For Lilith and Romy, Evie and Claire, Nellie and Grace, he was their first love, and their first true loss.
In this extraordinary collection, Kate McQuade explores the ripple effect of one transformative moment on six lives, witnessed at a different point in each girl’s future. Throughout these stories, these bright, imaginative, and ambitious girls mature into women, lose touch and call in favors, achieve success and endure betrayal, marry and divorce, have children and struggle with infertility, abandon husbands and remain loyal to the end.
Lyrical, intimate, and incisive, Tell Me Who We Were explores the inner worlds of girls and women, the relationships we cherish and betray, and the transformations we undergo in the simple act of living.
Book Feature - Tell Me Who We Were by Kate McQuade
