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Nineteen years ago, a famous filmmaker disappeared from Los Angeles, taking his two children, Dorothea and Jimmy, to a desolate corner of New Mexico. There he raised them in complete isolation without television, computer, radio -- not even a newspaper. Now, at twenty-three, Dorothea leaves in search of her missing brother -- and ventures into the outside world for the first time. Her search becomes an odyssey of discovery when Dorothea meets Stephen Spaulding, a cab driver dealing with his own mysterious history. With him as her guide, Dorothea uncovers the truth of her family's past and the terrifying day that changed her father forever. Together, they have a chance to discover that although a heart can be broken by the tragic events of a day, a day can also bring a new chance at love and a deeper understanding of life's infinite possibilities.
- Sales Rank: #1742353 in Books
- Brand: Tucker, Lisa
- Published on: 2007-05-15
- Released on: 2007-05-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .60" w x 5.31" l, .69 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Tucker's complexly structured novel could be a tight wire act for a reader because the story has multiple narrators and follows two compelling story lines separated by almost two decades. Fortunately, Bean is a dexterous performer who is more than up to the challenge. She does an admirable job, not only reading chapters in alternating character voices but also enlivening dialogue within those chapters with subtle, compelling and entertaining voices for each character. She adapts a higher, airy lightness to portray Dorothea, who is thrust out into the modern world to discover family secrets after having been sheltered from the outside world for decades by her overprotective father. Bean portrays Dorothea's emotionally damaged brother, Jimmy, with a scratchy, raw rasp and her cab-driving protector, Stephen, with the laid-back ease of a lower register. (The only voice that seems off is Dorothea's father, who sounds like a robotic Hannibal Lechter.) Tucker's tale is a twisty one filled with surprising revelations and multiple emotional payoffs, and Bean maneuvers the terrain with ease.
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From Booklist
In what may well be her breakout book, after Shout Down the Moon (2004), the gifted Tucker tells a compelling love story with uncommon empathy and grace. Stephen Spaulding loses his family in a freak accident and with them any hope that his actions can make a difference. He gives up his medical practice and begins driving a cab. That's how he meets 23-year-old Dorothea, who seems to be dressed like a throwback to the 1950s, complete with saddle shoes. She's looking for her brother, who has run away from their New Mexico ranch. Stephen helps Dorothea track down the brother and, at the same time, learn why her father fled Hollywood, changing his children's names and keeping them completely isolated from the outside world. The plotline of the Hollywood story is, appropriately enough, over the top, but that detracts from the genuinely moving love story that develops between the wounded Stephen and the heartbreakingly naive Dorothea. Here's hoping the talented Tucker will rein in the melodrama the next time out. Joanne Wilkinson
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Review
"A lyrically poignant reminder of the necessity of hope."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Tucker's graceful prose and well-crafted characters create a compelling odyssey of transfiguration."
-- People (Critic's Choice)
"Tucker's most ambitious novel yet. It's a tragedy, a mystery, a romance, a twisted family story about loss, violence, obsession, and forgiveness."
-- The Boston Globe
"Tucker's new fable is self-consciously the stuff of fairy tales.... The book is charged with the sense that life is charmed, that chance encounters can change fates and remake them for the better."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Deftly written and emotionally convincing."
-- Marie Claire
Most helpful customer reviews
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
An exploration of family dysfunction in fiction that could be a True Hollywood Story
By Jessica Lux
Wow! Lisa Tucker has written a story of a family history and interpersonal drama which will consume the reader from the first chapter. I usually juggle a few books at once, but this one made me drop all others, and stay up late at night, devouring the story.
No plot summary can do this novel justice. Essentially, we have a family living in seclusion on a New Mexico estate. Dad Charles has raised his two children, now in their early twenties, with no contact with the outside world, in 1950's-style clothing, and they worship him and fear the outside world. All is well until the older brother, Jimmy, escapes on a quest to find their supposedly-dead mother, and his sister Dorothea follows him out into the world. I'm sure you've figured out the early-on twist by now--Mom isn't dead, and Dad kidnapped his kids two decades ago.
The story involves both the present time and flashbacks of the dissolution of marriage between Charles and Lucy, leading to his fanatic escape into desert seclusion with their two children. Charles, a famous actor and director, is an unbalanced and controlling man who smothers his family with love and protection. He actively ruins his young wife's acting career out of his fear and paranoia, which he sees as "love." One can only assume that Tucker started working on this novel well before the current famous Hollywood couple that pairs an older man (with infamous religious values) with a younger actress who seems to be cut off from family and friends (TC and KH), but the parallels are eerie. In fact, when I was absorbed in this story, I had to keep reminding myself that this isn't a true Hollywood story. It's larger than life, sure, but not hard to imagine as a factual memoir.
Tucker's novel has a real strength it its subtle exploration of family dysfunction. Again and again, we see the consequences of the effects of dysfunction, from Charles's own childhood relationship with his father, to Lucy's need for a father-figure-of-a-husband after her tumultuous childhood and early sexuality, to the effects of Charles's smothering on his own children. Even the way that Lucy and Jimmy learn the truth about their parents' relationship is extremely troubling to everyone involved. Tucker never overtly mentions therapy, but I certainly kept thinking, "Boy, he/she could use a good therapist at this point in their life."
Highly recommended! Clear your schedule before you pick this one up! Now I need to go read Tucker's first two novels...
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Fine unassailable writing, and yet just not spectacular
By Nancy S. West
I am grappling for the right adjectives for a fair critique of this well-plotted, effectively narrated novel. I keep coming back to the fact that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone -- and I can't seem to articulate to myself why, except that there are simply too many wonderful books out there and life is too short to read unspectacular novels. I wouldn't insult this one by calling it mediocre, because Lisa Tucker clearly possesses plenty of skill as a novelist; and yet there was just nothing terrific about it. If an unpublished author handed me the raw manuscript, I'd be really impressed, because it is free of the kinds of errors that most aspiring writers make, and yet...as gripping and carefully woven as the plot is and as compelling as the characters are, I'm left with a big shrug. It just didn't sparkle for me at all. An earlier review called it "catnip for book groups," and I would have to say exactly the opposite. There just wouldn't be anything to debate; there's no nuance to grab hold of. On the plus side, it would be fair to say that the author wrapped up everything tidily in terms of plot -- it all fit together neatly and satisfyingly in the end. On the other side, when I finish reading a great novel I keep thinking about the characters, wondering what might have happened to them after the novel ended, etc.... and that's not happening for me with this one. It feels over-and-done. Even the theme of "everything can change in a day": as another Amazon reviewer essentially said (I'm paraphrasing from memory here), "I think we can all agree with that." Exactly: no one would disagree with that premise, but I find myself merely saying "True enough" and moving on. I don't think a great novel can be constructed on a theme which is essentially nothing more than a truism.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Too inconsistent for a higher rating
By T. Burket
I consider the novel a marginal four-star. Lisa Tucker has an interesting premise, where a dysfunctional family disintegrates, with one part living in a bubble in New Mexico. When the bubble bursts, Ms. Tucker has plenty of opportunity to unfold an interesting story.
She avoids too much of the "fish out of water" premise or "country bumpkin meets the city" that could have caused the story to descend into predictable gags or stale ideas. Instead, the thread with Dorothea and Stephen is easily the core of the novel, even though at its root the premise is highly unrealistic. I credit an author who can take an idea that seems very improbable and turn it into something that drives the narrative and keeps the reader engaged.
I was less interested in the sections that focus on Charles and Lucy, with their relationship again based on a highly improbable beginning. That's ok, of course, because the first meeting of Charles and Lucy is less important than Lucy's humble origins and their effect on her psyche and the resulting family dysfunction. We also eventually get more insight into why Charles developed into the controlling man obsessed with safety.
The two characters were too annoying for my tastes, which muted the pleasure of the novel. That may be my own issue, as it's kind of funny that I don't have a problem in novels with bad guys and creeps - it's the annoying people.
Of course, Ms. Tucker needed them to be annoying but not evil, given that their children turned out reasonably OK and to set up the last section of the novel that moved toward a relatively unsurprising ending. The very ending (the last scene) with two of the main characters was a nice touch.
Ms. Tucker's key psychological premise is that a lifetime can be dominated by a single event or just a single moment, normally a traumatic event rather than a pure moment of joy, and that lifetime ripples into the people around you. I don't think anybody would deny that, and we all may have people in our circles who have direct experience. For example, my own father used to talk about the impact of losing his mother at a young age and seeing his father drop dead when the son was 13. For many people, events like that are not easily shaken and may be the basis for the rest of their lives.
Therefore, it's fine to have this premise be fundamental to a novel's theme and story line. In this case it was a matter of watching the problem unfold in a forward direction for two characters (Lucy and Stephen, as we know what their "events" were) and wondering what the domino was for another (Charles, as we know how he turned out, but not why). The resulting story is good enough. I just would not call it especially insightful.
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