Unravelling

From a small bogside cabin in rural New England 38-year-old Aimee Slater unravels the story of her life attempting to make sense of the tangled thread that leads from her mother's house-a short unbridgeable distance away-to the world she now inhabits. It is soon after the Civil War; Aimee lives alone but is graced with visits from two friends a crippled man and a troubled eleven-year-old girl. She is perpetually caught between the sensual world she so desires and the divine retribution passed down to her by her mother's scorn. How Aimee ultimately creates a life for herself and bridges that distance makes for a moving story of love and loss. Told in a voice of spare New England lyricism Unravelling is a remarkably haunting account of the power of redemption.<br>