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    The Shades: A Novel
    The Shades: A Novel
    The Shades: A Novel
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Shades: A Novel

    Written by Evgenia Citkowitz

    Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A year has passed since Catherine and Michael Hall lost their teenage daughter in a car accident, leaving them and their sixteen-year-old son, Rowan, reeling in the aftermath of the tragedy. After Rowan escapes to boarding school, Catherine withdraws from her life as a successful London gallerist to Hamdean, an apartment in a former manor, where she and Michael had hoped to spend their retirement. When Catherine meets a beguiling young woman who appears at the house claiming to have once lived there, she looks to her for meaningful connection. But as their relationship shifts to one of forbidding uncertainty, the mysteries of the past collide with the truth of the present.

    With the psychological tension of Patricia Highsmith and the emotional complexity of Ian McEwan, The Shades raises questions about the inescapability of human nature and speaks to our deepest anxieties: the safety of those we love and the sanctuary of home.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJul 24, 2018
    ISBN9781684412754
    The Shades: A Novel

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    • 4/5
      This is a spare novel about the impact of the loss of a child on the rest of the family. The sense of dread builds as the book progresses. You know something will happen, but what?
    • 4/5
      Evgenia Citkowitz explores the devastating effects of loss in her first full-length novel The Shades. Catherine is a gallery owner who is still reeling from the loss of her daughter in an accident over a year ago. She wanders around the family’s country home-unable to return to work, barely coping with daily activities, and hiding from neighbors and friends. Her husband is spending increasingly more time at their London address, working and trying to reconcile his own beliefs about his relationship with Catherine before it became so distant and disconnected. Their teenage son, Rowan, has reacted to the death of his sister by running away to a private school. He becomes increasingly involved with environmental activism and seeks concrete ways to wrest back control of his life. The short novel alternates between these three characters, highlighting their separation and alienation from the world and each other. When a strange waif-like girl arrives at her doorstep, claiming to be the daughter of the previous owners, Catherine immediately sees her as a surrogate for her own lost child. Catherine become increasingly obsessed with taking this stranger under her wing, but Keira may not be who she claims to be. Catherine may not be able to recover from another loss and she is casting about for a sense of purpose as depression threatens to overwhelm her. In The Shades, Citkowitz provides a dense tale filled with emotion and a sense of lingering despair as this small family verges on collapse under the weight of their own grief.
    • 3/5
      Thanks to the publisher, W W. Norton & Company, for an ARC in exchange for my honest review.Evgenia Citkowitz is a new author for me. This novel is advertised as a mystery but, to me, it was not very suspenseful. It's the story of a family coping with the untimely death of their daughter and sister, Rachel. It studies each of the parents and brother as they cope with their grief in different ways. Not only is the loss of a young person's life a tragedy, but the family left behind is profoundly affected. There are not a lot of characters in this novel which I liked. But I felt the story line moved slowly including some details that didn't relate. The ending was confusing but by that time, I just wanted the family members to come together and realize that they still had each other.Even though the author did a good job of getting inside the grieving minds of the three main characters, this novel probably won't be a memorable one for me.