logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
We Are Water: A Novel - Wally Lamb
We Are Water: A Novel
by: (author)
We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.After 27 years of marriage and three children,... show more
We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh—wife, mother, outsider artist—has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family’s hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora’s Box of toxic secrets—dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs’ lives.We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs—nonconformist, Anna; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest. It is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.With humor and compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.
show less
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00BATIK02
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 559
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
Community Reviews
A Reading Vocation
A Reading Vocation rated it
4.5 Book 6/100: We Are Water by Wally Lamb
4.5 stars.I often find it a lot harder to review the books I really liked than the ones I didn't, so I've been sitting on this review for weeks.But I really loved this book. There were a couple things about it that annoyed me, so I'll get those out of the way first. I didn't like that so many of the...
KatieMc
KatieMc rated it
0.0 We Are Water
We Are Water is a family story, of hurt and healing, acceptance and moving forward. It was quite good, written in alternating POVs, but mostly that of Annie and Orion Oh, an estranged couple. There are many flashbacks, but the present day story revolves around the upcoming nuptials between Annie O...
xopti
xopti rated it
4.0 We Are Water
Pretty good.. Almost as good as undone, psychoanalytic theme, Annie Oh/Anna O
Mellkoh
Mellkoh rated it
4.5 We Are Water
Near the end of this book, there's talk of a study where brain scientists studied the MRIs of subject when they read fiction. They apparently found that the brain was stimulated through reading fiction in much the same way as it was if the reader was actually experiencing the scenarios described in...
Momster Bookworm
Momster Bookworm rated it
0.0 We Are Water
I picked up this read simply because I was drawn to the title, not knowing what the story was about. Partway in, I realize that it's about a middle-aged woman who has left her husband for.... another woman. I chose to continue reading as, by that time, I was drawn into wanting to find out what goes ...
Other editions (12)
Books by Wally Lamb
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?