Hauntingly Beautiful
"Things that happen in your childhood come back to haunt you more and more as you get older, and once you are alone you no longer pretend that the life at hand is where you live." I read Lee Zacharias' Across the Great Lake a few weeks ago, and her characters are still very much alive in my mind, like beloved friends long gone but never to be forgotten. The story is told from the viewpoint of Fern, both as an old woman looking back upon her life and as an adventurous child tr