![]() ![]() Maddie can’t hear anything or anyone over the drumbeat of her own dreams-and that’s the problem. She tries to tell Maddie that being interested in someone’s death isn’t the same as caring about her life, but she can’t be heard across the void that separates them. Cleo Sherwood, now a ghost, watches with dismay and mounting anger as Maddie pokes into her history. Maddie Schwartz, baffled by her life, tries to make sense of a young African-American woman’s death. ![]() ![]() That was the seed for Lady in the Lake, in which a 37-year-old woman bolts her seemingly happy marriage determined to matter in the quickly changing world of 1966. But how does she feel? What’s it like to come face-to-face with someone who remembers a younger you, the you with big dreams and aspirations? “Have you ever bumped into someone that you haven’t seen-or even thought about-for ten, twenty, thirty years? At the end of Marjorie Morningstar, Herman Wouk writes about such a meeting from a man’s point of view, encountering a long-ago crush. In a letter to her readers, Laura has more to say about what ![]()
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