(Debut)
#monopolychallenge - Marvin Gardens - Plants on the cover.
This book is written in the prose style and mostly character development with a little romance and mystery.
It is about a 20 year old daughter who walks into the water off of the beach near Rio de Janeiro. It is told in back and forth chapters by the family members, their feelings, things that happened prior to and after she disappears. It also deals with the father's mental illness,his highs and lows.
The country of Brazil is beautifully described, the beautiful beaches, the beauty of Carnival, The Copacabana Club and the waters of the Amazon. I learned that there are pink dolphins that live in the Amazon River, How cool is that!!!!
Goodreads:: Set against the seductive world of 1960s Rio de Janeiro, an exquisite debut novel about family secrets, divided loyalties, and what we're willing to do to save ourselves.
This mesmerizing first novel follows a glamorous family as they prepare to leave the seeming paradise of Brazil for Canada in the wake to the mysterious disappearance -- and presumed drowning -- of their eldest daughter a year earlier. As the novel moves back and forth between the members of the Maurer family, we are taken into the heart of a family whose beauty and charm belie a more troubling reality.
We meet the family's brilliant and charismatic father, whose bipolar extremes are becoming increasingly disturbing; his long-suffering wife, who once had a brief affair that proves to have shattering consequences for the family she swore to protect; their two remaining daughters, both on the brink of understanding the darker currents that run in their once-proud family; and the lost daughter herself, a beautiful young woman undone by her own grand delusions.
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