Blurb:
After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully understood.

At the same time, another woman enters Erik's lonely, divorced life - a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her, he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past.

A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart and mind, THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN is compulsive, thought-provoking and profoundly affecting.


Gefunden im Bücherschrank im Hotel Villaggio (siehe Journalbild) in Stromboli im Mai 2016.
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Gelesen hab ich es natürlich auch. Die ersten beiden Drittel haben mir sehr gut gefallen, aber dann bleibt die Handlung quasi "stecken", es kommt nur noch wenig Neues dazu. Fast hattte ich den Eindruck, als hätte sich die Autorin hier verzettelt oder nicht so genau gewußt, wann sie die Geschichte zu welchem Ende führen möchte/soll/könnte....

Das Buch geht mit zum morgigen Meetup in Würzburg.

I brought the book with me from the Meetup in Würzburg yesterday.