![]() ![]() In Lovely, Dark and Deep, Wren, the main character, is struggling with the darkest kind of grief: she was in the car accident that killed her boyfriend. This haunting, lyrical story is Amy McNamara's debut, but it is clear that she is an accomplished poet who loves words and the very specific ways deep, true emotions can be conveyed by them. ![]() A Lovely, Dark, and Deep kind of week, in fact. It's been a dark, otherworldly kind of week in other ways too. My running buddies and I begin our run in the woods by the river in the dim, grey-black light of dawn now that strange, sort of other-worldly time when eyesight is a secondary, sort of backseat sense, when my feet intuitively take over and I don't even have to think about navigating the trail. I look out the window as I get dressed in the early mornings and it feels as though it is the middle of the night. All of a sudden - or maybe not - you perceive that shift in the seasons. ![]() Change gradually happens over time, but noticing it takes one studied moment. But I remember when I actually registered it. It is deep winter and the mornings have been dark for a while now. This debut author's work features a teenage protagonist who finds ways of dealing with loss in a haunting and deeply affecting novel. ![]()
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