Emotionally charged and compelling, Schulman’s haunting novel depicts the return of three brothers to the family cottage where old enmities and dark secrets threaten to disrupt the scattering of their mother’s ashes.
Years ago, they fled the lake house.
Now, the brothers have returned.
Three brothers return to the family cottage by the lake where, more than two decades earlier, a catastrophe changed the course of their lives. Now, they are here to scatter their mother's ashes - young men, estranged but bound together by the history that defines them. Their lives have been spent competing for their father's favour and their mother's love, in a household more like a minefield than a home. What really happened that summer day when everything was blown to pieces?
The Survivors is a suspenseful, haunting novel about three brothers and their reckoning with the events of one disputed, disastrous summer.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349726861
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 230 g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 21 mm
I’m giving 4 stars to this purely because of the ending. I struggled with the way it jumped around in time to tell the family history as well as the present day. It did explain how each of the family members ended up... More
This story is about three brothers and their upbringing. The story is very sad from beginning to end and I could not tell where the story would go. The boys, Nils Pierre and Benjamin visit the same place every... More
I was looking forward to reading this book and had high expectations but sadly I just couldn’t get into the story at all. Unfortunately this was not the book for me,
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