Tigers in Red Weather - Hardcover

Klaussmann, Liza

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ISBN 10: 1410452557 ISBN 13: 9781410452559

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2012

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Nick and her cousin, Helena, grew up sharing sultry summers on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate called Tiger House. Following World War II, Helena goes off to Hollywood and a new marriage while Nick reunites with a young husband home from war. Back at Tiger House with their children on the brink of the 1960s, the cousins try to recapture that sense of possibility -- but the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel.

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Review:

Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2012: It’s the end of World War II, and cousins Nick and Helena part ways for the first time. Helena is moving to Hollywood and getting married; Nick goes to Florida with her veteran husband, Hughes. The women soon realize that their lives don’t match their dreams, but it takes more than twelve years and their children finding a murder victim to jar them out of their complacency. Liza Klaussmann layers the story with the distinct viewpoints of Nick, her daughter Daisy, Hughes, Helena, and Helena’s son Ed. From wartime London in the 1940s to the family beach estate, Tiger House, in the late 1960s, each character brings their own baggage to the story of a family unraveling. Secret fears, desires, and relationships come to light as facades are worn away. The unsolved murder soon becomes just one of many mysteries swirling around the Tiger House, building suspense all the way to the startling conclusion. --Malissa Kent

About the Author:

Liza Klaussmann worked as a journalist for the New York Times for over a decade. She received a BA in Creative Writing from Barnard College, where she was awarded the Howard M. Teichman Prize for Prose. She lived in Paris for ten years and she recently completed with distinction an MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, in London, where she lives. She is the great-great-great granddaughter of Herman Melville.

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