THE CHRONICLE of ÉRIC NEUHOFF – The quality is not surprising in this American's eighth novel. The author highlights a sentence from Giono: “Everything you pile up outside your heart is lost. »
As if twisted, they sit there a little. The Hamptons rule Blowing Rock. In this small town, these landowners run the grocery store and the sawmill, providing jobs to the population. They lost two daughters. They still have Jacob. They hold it like the apple of their eye. For him, the future is all mapped out. He will take over the business, marry Veronica, whose parents own the hardware store.
It was counting without Naomi. She is 16, a cleaning lady, barely knows how to write. Jacob is absolutely crazy about it. Daniel and Dora tear their hair out. It won't happen like that. You speak. Jacob marries her without taking their opinion into account. Naomi becomes pregnant. It is the end of the 1950s. Jacob is called to fight in Korea. He asks his friend Blackburn, disfigured by polio, to take care of the pregnant woman. The Hamptons disinherit him and imagine a diabolical scenario to permanently separate the young people.
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