![]() ![]() While the story is interesting and well-written, I did not find the characters as compelling as I had hoped. The novel spans more than 25 years of their moving from young adulthood to middle age, and the characters change and develop in interesting ways. For others, she is a ghost who haunts them with guilt and destroys them. For some, the dead girl becomes a muse, as they dedicate their artistic work to her memory. The accident is with them all the time, together or apart. The rest of their lives, together or apart, they carry the burden of the one girl, a stranger, who did not live. The novel follows the lives of a group of young people–interrelated by blood, marriage and romantic entanglements–after they are involved in a car accident that kills a young child. Carry the One was a good read, not a great one, but it was enjoyable. I gladly made a donation to the Y in exchange for this one, because I just needed to escape into a novel for a day or two. I dropped my son off at the YMCA for fall break camp, and they had a few tables full. Carry the One by Carol Anshaw, Simon & Schuster, 2012, 288 pp. ![]()
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