Longreave is about as accomplished and well-rounded a story
you could hope for. Set in the fictional town of Manxfield, near Boston, (at
least I couldn’t find it on Google), the story focuses on the lives of Mark and
Alice Currier as their marriage breaks down, and Alice’s brother Alex. The
opening pages were enough to settle any doubts that this was going to be a
decent read. Daniel doesn’t tell, he shows. Take the opening line:
"Mark Currier woke inside a child’s coffin."
The next paragraph went on to describe a room that had been
“a guestroom for five years now.” Using metaphor and symbolism, we can surmise
that a child, presumably theirs’, is dead, and the breakdown of their marriage
has now reached a head, where Mark is being forced to sleep in the guestroom.
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