Open Water

by Maria Flook

When Holly Temple, divorced and on probation for torching her ex-husband's bed, meets up with a petty thief recently discharged from the Navy and Rennie, his terminally ill stepmother, inventive strategies are needed to cope with what comes their way

327 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Maria Flook is the author of the novels Family Night (which received a PEN American/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Special Citation) and Open Water, as well as a collection of stories, You Have the Wrong Man, and a memoir, My Sister Life: The Story of My Sister's Disappearance. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The New Criterion, TriQuarterly, and More Magazine among others. She is a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award recipient, and is currently Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College in Boston. More information about Maria Flook can be found at www.mariaflook.net.

Reviews

[Arhlene · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Not very believable.

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Odd characters, but endearing.