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UNMOORED is about what we get to keep and what we don't get to keep, what we want to know and what we can't let ourselves know, what we love and what we unwittingly betray. Carving from memory the ground she will stand on, Rennie England returns to the family home in Idaho in time to see her father's body being carried out his fire-blackened bedroom window. Her journey to find out what happened will take her to his bedroom, to a candle in the room and a key in the lock, to other rooms where people fell in love, where people died. As she asks who was locked in and who was locked out, she hears in a new way the voices of her life: the father who hangs his twins, but not by the neck; the grandmother, whose light comes with cinnamon and salt; the lover, who is the one right thing and out of reach even before he is assassinated. Rennie finds healing when she returns to her grandparents' sawmill cabin in the Centennial Mountains, its paths strewn with the light of morning, the shadow of dusk, the scent of alpine daisies and Douglas fir, of grass and mint and brook.
Unmoored, by Jeri Parker- Amazon Sales Rank: #1036197 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .98" w x 5.98" l, 1.41 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 440 pages
Review Jeri Parker knows how to maintain a sense of purpose and wonder.--Kirkus InterviewIt will be a long time before I'll read a book as beautiful and as intelligent as UNMOORED.--Ruth Mullen, Author, EditorI am Rennie who will follow the thread of the half-told tales, she says and a fundamental glory of the book is that most of the tales remain half-told: a shimmer of ambiguity envelops all the vivid players in this Proustian memory-drama: the violent but sometimes tender father, Blaine England; Rennie s sweet twin brother, Kent, who descends into madness; her fearful, compliant mother, Deborah; her doomed adopted son, Carlos, and the love of her life, a shadowy romantic named David, who dies in Tel Aviv amid a cloud of political intrigue.
Best of all, we have Rennie s wise grandmother, a descendant of pioneers who serves even in death as her emotional anchor: I saw life plentiful, the old woman says. Time is a funny thing. It is together we make the spreading tree. Salt Lake City author Jeri Parker knows well the vast beauty of the American West, not least the North Fork of the Snake River. She also writes beautifully and unsentimentally about the traumas in Rennie s life. Parker s description of the ruinous Teton Dam Flood of 1976 is spare and harrowing, and she perfectly captures the morning-after shock of the fatal fire: This isn t how we live what on this lawn, this blackened house. We got up each morning, loved each other, more or less, kept clean like other people. We drank from glasses, forks on the left. We washed the Buick once a week, cared for a garden...
Of such tense verbal precision and depth of feeling is this enthralling family saga made. --Midwest Review September 2015When the narrator of this richly imagined novel begins telling her story, in 1992, her tyrannical father has just died in a mysterious house fire. Was it an accident? A case of suicide? Murder? This burning question compels the Idaho painter and writer Rennie England to take stock of her entire life at age 59.
I am Rennie who will follow the thread of the half-told tales, she says, and a fundamental glory of the book is that most of the tales remain half-told: a shimmer of ambiguity envelops all the vivid players in this Proustian memory-drama: the violent but sometimes tender father, Blaine England; Rennie s sweet twin brother, Kent, who descends into madness; her fearful, compliant mother, Deborah; her doomed adopted son, Carlos, and the love of her life, a shadowy romantic named David, who dies in Tel Aviv amid a cloud of political intrigue.
Best of all, we have Rennie's wise grandmother, a descendant of pioneers who serves even in death as her emotional anchor: I saw life plentiful, the old woman says. Time is a funny thing. It is together we make the spreading tree.
Salt Lake City author Jeri Parker knows well the vast beauty of the American West, not least the North Fork of the Snake River. She also writes beautifully and unsentimentally about the traumas in Rennie s life. Parker s description of the ruinous Teton Dam Flood of 1976 is spare and harrowing, and she perfectly captures the morning-after shock of the fatal fire: This isn t how we lived what s on this lawn, this blackened house. We got up each morning, loved each other, more or less, kept clean like other people. We drank from glasses, forks on the left. We washed the Buick once a week, cared for a garden . . .
Of such tense verbal precision and depth of feeling is this enthralling family saga made. --BlueInk Review October 2015Jeri Parker's voice like the Snake River Idaho landscape it was born to and rises out of is, at once, rugged and still. It lifts up in praise, drifts down in delicious secrecy. It is bruised and proud, mischievous and longing. This is a writer whose voice can have both a fierce and a gentle beauty. Read her. --David Kranes, Author of The Legend's Daugher
From the Author I had a long and deep love affair with writing UNMOORED. It taught me what I knew and what I didn't know and how to make a bridge between those two worlds.
From the Back Cover An impressive, evocative memory piece. --Kirkus Reviews
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A total pleasure By Amazon Customer I felt what it is to be grownup when I was reading Unmoored, and it taught me about what I hadn’t understood of the world I’d grown up in. The experience was so vivid that I felt I was not just reading it but was actually in it. There were a few moments when I was so involved, I had to put it down. As intense as it was, Unmoored was never maudlin and it so easily could have been. A lessor writer would have slid into sentimentality.One of the many pleasures in reading Unmoored is that there is considerable mystery involved. It has the complexity and the ambiguity, the untidiness, of life. You are left to wonder how the father died in the fire in his bedroom. It could have been an accident, you tell yourself, and later you wonder if it was a suicide. The possibility that it was a murder also lurks in your mind as you turn the facets of the book in the light shed by the various bits of information that continue to accrue.Unmoored is so beautiful and so intelligent, it’s almost primordial. All the way through you’re aware it’s been written by a very intelligent person. You feel you can relax and trust that the writer can do the high notes. Indeed she could.My feeling at the end of the book was is this author working on another book? Will there be more? I also felt envy all the way through at her art with words. Envy is perhaps not exactly the word—not a raw, coveting envy but a feeling of exultation that someone had been so good at making the world of Unmoored.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Rich and thought provoking By M Jeri Parker is an artist in every sense of the word! She creates a picture of her characters that is as vivid and beautiful as her the picture she painted on the cover of her book. Her language use is decadent- - -like a rich French dessert to be consumed slowly and savored.This book made me think of the "characters" in my own life that have left an indelible mark, and those like David and "that crazy Thelma Myzeld," whose quirks left me wishing that I knew more people like them. I found it fascinating how Rennie processed both the good and the bad events that came her way. Good work, Parker!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I was drawn to “Unmoored" by the beautiful cover where the little cabin is tucked in a ... By Leslie Stoddard I was drawn to “Unmoored" by the beautiful cover where the little cabin is tucked in a forest with a stream bubbling through the meadow. The remoteness of this setting suited the title “Unmoored”…. I wanted to open the book and discover more about it.Like the main character, Rennie, I was lost in the forest with its meadows and flowers and the life of the woman who is trying to come to terms with the suspicious death of her father.That father, a powerful man whose character is volatile and unpredictable, has no sense of what a child’s world is. In one scene he has Rennie and her twin brother Kent help him skin out a deer. It’s a dramatic, almost eerie scene. The father has the deer hanging in the garage and he holds them up to the cuts he’s making in the fur, letting them get hold of that fur. As they drop, their weight slowly skins the deer. It’s uncomfortable and at the same time fascinating. You see what their childhood was like—the uncertainty, the fear of the father always present. It has a feeling of life on a frontier and that is a very good metaphor for what is happening—the strange, unexplored territory Rennie is trying to handle.Scenes like this make you all the happier when Rennie finds safety and joy in her relationship with David. He is the character who is safe for all of us. He brings comfort, like the grandmother, Phaedrus. She is the person who is really the reason Rennie finds her way out of the losses she has experienced. She will lose David as she lost her father. Both have a violent ending to their lives. It is then that you see how she makes her way back to her grandmother’s voice where she is grounded in the ease and joy of Phaedrus’ life. Her voice is one of those great, original voices. At the end of the book, she and Rennie are in a conversation and you’re completely caught up in it; you feel yourself learning from the grandmother just as Rennie does. Here’s an example: “What it is about life is this—things change. They do…they change. Life can’t stand still. And they don’t always change real slow and natural. It’s bang and it’s this way and it’s slam and it’s that. You know who taught me a lot about that, Rennie?”As you watch Rennie come around to be one with nature and to recover her grandmother, you can’t help reflecting on the title. Unmoored was a word that appealed to me and the book made me see that it cuts both ways; you can be adrift but you can also be cut loose from what held you down.Reading "Unmoored" made me want to read it again, carefully. I highly recommend it.
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