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Dear Bookclub,
Fifty years ago, my cousins and I dangled our legs through huge black rubber tubes and zigzagged through murky waters back and forth across Cheat Lake in West Virginia. A creepy delight, we knew our kicking legs towered above a drowned valley and the idea of a church, homes, etc. stilled by the waters fueled our frenzy to find the dock by their summer cabin and sun above the water. That was the extent of my ten-year-old's understanding of the lake and I never considered it again until Anna Quindlen's "Miller's Valley". Prompted to consider its origin, the lake was indeed created by the 1926 construction of a dam by the West Penn Power Company. http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1109 Still creepy.
Hardly creepy are the characters Quindlen created in the realm of a 1960's-to-present family saga. Looking forward to discussing the personalities and situations with our group this Thursday at The Veranda, 7 pm.
Happy summer reading,
LK
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