![]() ![]() Susan (a shrink with a lot of time on her hands) says to Tom, "Will you stay in New York and tell me all you know?" and he does, for nearly 600 mostly-bloated pages of flashbacks depicting The Family Wingo of swampy Colleton County: a beautiful mother, a brutal shrimper father (the Great Santini alive and kicking), and Tom and Savannah's much-admired older brother, Luke. Savannah, it turns out, is catatonic, and before the suicide attempt had completely assumed the identity of a dead friend-the implication being that she couldn't stand being a Wingo anymore. When he hears that his fierce, beautiful twin sister Savannah, a well-known New York poet, has once again attempted suicide, he escapes his present emasculation by flying north to meet Savannah's comely psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man. Read it on a dark and stormy night-with all the lights on.Ī flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent. Like the Glass House itself, this novel is “a tiger’s enclosure, with nowhere to hide” and with a constant undercurrent of danger. Recalling such classics as And Then There Were None, she creates a unique setting for the psychological scares, and her characters, while somewhat stock, have enough depth to fool even savvy mystery fans for a while. However, the success of the first half of the novel does speak to Ware’s ability to spin a good yarn. Unfortunately, as Nora’s memory returns, the truth and the climax ultimately disappoint, and Nora’s timidity and secrecy become frustrating. Clearly, something is very wrong, but it’s unclear whether it’s Nora, Clare, Flo, or some outside intruder who is responsible for the chills and the deepening unease. In classic Agatha Christie fashion, the first half of the novel is masterful in the slow build of suspense. Nora, sensitive and skittish and nursing some great secret about her past and her lost friendship with Clare, wants nothing more than to leave, but she feels trapped by curiosity, guilt, and obligation to Flo, the woman who planned the weekend and takes any complication as a personal affront. When Leonora Shaw wakes up in the hospital with memory gaps and a head wound, one of the first questions she asks is, “What have I done?” Through flashbacks, Ware slowly unspools the mystery, setting a truly spooky scene as six relative strangers gather at the isolated Glass House, celebrating the upcoming marriage of Nora’s former friend Clare Cavendish, with whom she had lost touch 10 years before. Listen to the story and learn what decision Robin made.In Ware’s debut, a reclusive crime writer reunites with a long-lost friend during a weekend hen party that goes horribly wrong. ![]() ![]() She has one Bear tag, and if she uses it on the wounded bear, her hunt for the year is over.īut the little bear is suffering, and will most likely starve over the winter. But this bear is badly wounded and suffering. ![]() She knows the Big Bear is coming, he often visits this spot. Its a much smaller bear. And its wounded. The Bear steps out into the clearing, and Robin realizes its not the bear she was hunting. Its no doubt a big bear, Robin thought, because of how much noise it was making. Sitting in her treestand one evening she hears the loud sound of a bear crashing through the woods. This was a special bear, and it would feed Robin’s family for a long time. The average bear taken in Maine weighs under 200 LBs. Robin Decided that this was the bear she was going to take home. This bear was frequenting her spot, often. One day a 400 Lb Boar began showing up on Robins Game Camera. Close calls, and some scary interactions with bears and moose, but no meat in the freezer. Years later, she still had no success in the field. She figured it was the perfect time to take on a new life challenge. She was going to learn to hunt. Now, as she realized her daughter was about to Graduate, and her life was going to be changing. Her Father was a hunter, and she remembered as a young girl all the boys leaving for hunt camp. But she wanted to take farm to table lifestyle one step further. She knew the importance of raising and harvesting your own food. Robin Follette decided one morning that she wanted a change in life. In this Episode of the Homesteady Campfire, we listen to a tale of dark woods, big bears, and a Woman who decided to try to feed her family by killing a large black bear. ![]()
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