text Ì Evening News Ô Marly Swick
Y acclaimed Paper Wings As with her previous work Swick resolutely travels the domestic landscape detailing delicately and truthfully the effect of Trina's death on the unstable triangle of the family left behind Each member finds their bonds of love and loyalty tested and each is resilient in the face of their loss but for different perhaps too different reasons G I read this because I loved Paper Wings but was disappointed that it did not have the same magical prose It's the story of a boy playing with his friend's gun when it goes off shooting his baby sister The story drags as I suppose life would stand still from that day forward but the characters didn't have the same power or pull
Marly Swick Ô Evening News doc
Evening NewsNine year old Teddy is playing next door with his best friend when Eric pulls out his father's handgun and hands it to Teddy The telephone rings; the gun goes off shooting and killing Teddy's two year old half sister Trina who was playing in a wading pool in the yard outside with Giselle their mother by her sideThus begins Marly Swick's second novel after the highl I read this book in 2004 and was deeply moved by it I thought about it weekly for months after reading it Then in 2014 10 years later I find the app Goodreads and want to include this novel but I can't think of the title After a internet search on the plot I found it This review is about how the book made me feel because to be honest I can not remember the details Although the subject matter is heart wrenching it was thought provoking too How would I react what if this happened to my family I don't remember the book entering into the politics of guns Which would have ruined the reading experience for me I plan on reading it again soon and adding another review