{"id":893,"date":"2013-01-28T19:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=893"},"modified":"2013-01-28T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T01:09:24","slug":"jenny-milchman-cover-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/jenny-milchman-cover-of-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Milchman: Cover of Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jenny Milchman\u2019s atmospheric debut novel would probably make you feel a chill even in August. Set in a tiny Adirondack town, main character Nora Hamilton wakes up one morning to find her whole world blown apart. She\u2019d been happily married to a police officer – one terrible morning she finds he\u2019s hanged himself in the attic.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>From there, it\u2019s almost as you are with Nora on her confusing journey of grief and revelation as she tries to figure out why her apparently happy and loving husband would have done something like this. Of no help are her cold, stand-offish mother-in-law; any cop in town, most of whom tell her to stay home and get better; or her own parents, who are whisked off canvas almost immediately.<\/p>\n

Of some help is her fierce sister, Teggie, who painfully (to Nora) is falling in love in front of her eyes. What\u2019s helpful is Teggie\u2019s fighting spirit, which Nora channels when she\u2019s faced with something particularly difficult or scary. Also helpful is an apparently autistic mechanic who provides Nora with several clues, most of them very hard to figure out. He serves as the voice of the innocent, untouched by the world at large.<\/p>\n

As a series of unexplained incidents, both past and present, begin to menacingly coalesce, as readers we\u2019re still somewhat in the dark, which is an unusual structure for a thriller. We\u2019re finding things out along with Nora. In many thrillers, the reader is inside the head of the bad guy on some level, or you\u2019re given more of a bird\u2019s eye view of the situation than the character sometimes has.<\/p>\n

Milchman\u2019s book is entirely from Nora\u2019s perspective, so while you are sometimes frustrated at what she doesn\u2019t know or can\u2019t figure out, at the same time it\u2019s truly a mystery. As a reader you won\u2019t be peeling away any layers of the mystery before she does. The book\u2019s strength lies in Milchman\u2019s sensitive portrayal of many of the characters as well as the setting. As far as I\u2019m concerned, I\u2019m never going to visit the Adirondacks. They may be lovely, but they apparently harbor plenty of secrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenny Milchman\u2019s atmospheric debut novel would probably make you feel a chill even in August. Set in a tiny Adirondack town, main character Nora Hamilton wakes up one morning to find her whole world blown apart. She\u2019d been happily married to a police officer – one terrible morning she finds he\u2019s hanged himself in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-psychological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}