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The Dive from Clausens Pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction It does what the best novels so often do making the largest things visible by its perfect rendering of life on the smaller scale It is witty tragic and touching and beguiling from the first page Scott Turow

A riveting novel about loyalty and selfknowledge and the conflict between who we want to be to others and who we must be for ourselves

Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin all her life Shes had the same best friend the same good relationship with her mother the same boyfriend Mike now her fianc for as long as anyone can remember Its with real surprise she finds that at age twentythree her life has begun to feel suffocating She longs for a change an upheaval for a chance to begin again

That chance is granted to her terribly when Mike is injured in an accident Now Carrie has to question everything she thought she knew about herself and the meaning of home She must ask How much do we owe the people we love Is it a sign of strength or of weakness to walk away from someone in need

The Dive from Clausens Pier reminds us how precarious our lives are and how quickly they can be divided into before and after whether by random accident or by the force of our own desires It begins with a disaster that could happen out of the blue in anybodys life and it forces us to ask how we would bear up in the face of tragedy and what we know or think we know about our deepest allegiances Elegantly written and ferociously paced emotionally nuanced and morally complex The Dive from Clausens Pier marks the emergence of a prodigiously gifted new novelist