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Loading... Trespass: A Novelby Valerie Martin
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Engaging and well-written story of two families struggling with external and internal wars. Harsh at times, but true to human nature. The author is not detached and sterile about her characters, which is a welcome contrast to many contemporary novels with thematic plots. (  ) sonyau | Jul 14, 2009 |  books4micks | Jul 13, 2009 | Contrasts the lives of the displaced and massacred Croats during their war against the Serbs in the 1990's to the lives of Americans during the first Iraq war who watched that war from the comfort of their living rooms and local fern bars. Didactic and (  ) eejjennings | Apr 22, 2009 | Toby is the 21-year-old only son of Chloe, a book illustrator, and Brendan, a history professor. When Toby falls in love with, impregnates, and marries a brash, slightly untamed Croatian-American student named Salome, Chloe is horrified. She is certain Toby has been "trapped" by a woman she sees as unsavory and a threat. Meanwhile, Salome's past in war-torn Croatia suddenly rears up, creating havoc for her and Toby. Finally, Chloe is obsessed with a poacher (she's convinced he's "Middle-Eastern" - maybe Lebanese. Turns out he's a Basque) who has been hunting on her land and is determined to make him stop. "Big" themes such as freedom, war, and what it means to be American permeate the book - but I liked the relationships best. Chloe is so exasperating, but also wonderfully strong and intriguing, and the same goes for Salome. The men are mostly sweetie-pies (except when they're evil monsters), but pale in comparison to the women. (  ) emitnick | Aug 11, 2008 |  living2read | Jul 26, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Yet Chloe is disturbed—by the aggression of her government’s foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land behind her studio punctuating her solitude with rifle fire, and finally, by Toby’s new girlfriend, a Croatian refugee named Salome Drago.
Raised in the Croatian expatriate community of New Orleans, Salome is a toxic mix of the old world and the new: intelligent, superstitious, sly, seductive, and confident. But Salome’s past is a mine of dangerous secrets, and the violence that destroyed her homeland is far from over. Chloe distrusts her on sight, and as Toby’s obsession with Salome grows, Chloe’s mistrust deepens, alienating her from her tolerant husband and besotted son. Rich with menace, the novel unfolds in a world where darkness intrudes into bright and pleasant places, a world with betrayal at its heart. In shimmering prose Valerie Martin raises the question: who shall inherit America?
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