Review: A literary suspense?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2008
Things We Can't Untie is one of those novels that saturates the taste buds with elegant prose.  It is one whose sentences must be savored a little at a time, for the words and the images they evoke are truly beautiful.  The gift of the writer shines through in the opening pages of the narrative when Anna wakes up the morning after her husband's death and, shellshocked and stunned, goes through the motion of making bread for her bed and breakfast guests, kneading the dough, letting its softness slide through her fingers.  At this time, the reader not only feels her emotions but the physicality of her actions. The mystery introduced by the knowledge that Catherine, the woman who comforted Anna during her time of need, has a past with Anna's deceased husband further whets our appetite to read more of the story. Five stars!