Tigers in Red Weather, Liza Klaussmann
Tigers in Red Weather, Liza Klaussmann
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Tigers in Red Weather
A Novel

Author: Liza Klaussmann

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/17/2012

Synopsis

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war.

Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena -- with their children, Daisy and Ed -- try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same.

Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Wendy on 2012-11-09 19:32:04

This is the worst audiobook I have rented. Bad language, big words, story goes nowhere.

Goodreads review by Brenda on August 29, 2012

Silly me, I scanned the reviews of this book and came away with the impression it would be a light beach read about a pair of cousins after World War II, their children, a little bit historical fiction and family drama and intergenerational perspective, something similar to J. Courtney Sullivan's Ma......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on June 18, 2012

Wow...what a debut! Somehow this book manages to exist as both beach-read and book-club material. The plot is riveting, which makes the book hard to put down, but it is the superb character portraits that kept me reading long into the night. The narrative technique used is very effective, and the au......more

Goodreads review by Robert on August 12, 2016

I just need to stop reading historical fiction. Like right now. But I keep trying, like the little kid who keeps reaching for the electric burner, even though he’s bound to burn himself for the thirteenth time and once again lose several layers of skin in the process, or like the woman who just can’......more

Goodreads review by Debbie M on August 30, 2019

I AM STILL PROCESSING THIS STORY. SO MANY LAYERS & TOLD BY 4 OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS POINT OF VIEW, THIS WAS FASCINATING & HARD TO PUT DOWN. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS FOR ANY HISTORICAL FICTION LOVERS OUT THERE. THIS STORY STARTS INNOCENT ENOUGH LEARNING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS & THE PLOT BUT STARTS GETTI......more

Quotes

"With sultry prose and a sure hand for suspense, Liza Klaussmann expertly weaves a vivid tale of glamour and despair, fidelity and betrayal, secrets and abandon. Tigers in Red Weather will have you furiously postponing all human interaction until its gripping finale."—- Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

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