The seduction of water
By: Carol Goodman
Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed.
Series: Ballantine reader's circle
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9780345450913
Description: Iris Greenfeder is a 36-year-old barely published New York writer and teacher whose long-term boyfriend, an artist, sees her schedule as strict and therefore will not spend the night, because he likes to get up and paint first thing every morning. When one of Iris's stories about her mother is picked up by a small literary journal with a well-connected editor, things start to happen for her. She becomes convinced that a summer out of the city, working as manager of the old hotel where she grew up, will give her the perfect setting in which to pen a memoir of her writer mother, as well as an opportunity to look for the rumored manuscript of her mother's final book. But there are those who are just as determined to keep the dead woman's secrets in the grave.
Notes: Includes reading group discussion guide.