After a while, though, I became accustomed to her quirks and was able to let go and push through my dislike of Raudman's rolled 'r's and sibilant 's' sounds (does she have a lisp?). The narrator is not one of my favorites, though others may like her.

While I enjoyed the meandering because of the excellence of the writing, I can see how the lives of these characters would seem to other readers to be so deflated, non-relatable, the central figures simply unlikable.

I think the format works, and I really did like that the life trajectories were far from clich?. In a new novel from Carol Anshaw called Carry the One, the repercussions of a single shared moment in her character's lives reverberates for years. The various characters and the leftover, restructured, reworked angst from the original scene (don't want to spoil) is laid out in life stories, forming the basic structure of the novel. I also needed to know the overall basic premise - the book's beginning in the center of a party in progress offered me nothing. I later returned to it after reading many reviews from many sources, and seeing nothing else on this site that attracted me, am glad I gave it another try. Through friendships and love affairs marriage and divorce parenthood, holidays, and the modest calamities and triumphs of ordinary days, Carry the One shows how one life affects another, and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than wed expect. More books from this author: Carol Anshaw. So after reading Chapter One I promptly let go of this book and made another selection. Carry the One A Novel By Carol Anshaw Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 15.00 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. This novel starts out that way, with a cohort of characters thrown at the reader, and I could barely digest one character's story before the narrative moved on to the next. I have an aversion to books that start out 'in medias res', in the middle of things, without any background, full of dialogue without context, and I feel like I am crashing a party, or that I've arrived at a party solo, without a 'date' and knowing no one.

Carry the one by carol anshaw