What Could Abe Saved
Happy Saturday!! I hope everyone is starting their weekend with a smile.๐
Today Iโm picking up What Could Be Saved by @lieseschwarzwriter and Iโm quite excited, since this book has been on my radar. It looks to be a rich, complex and riveting story, so stay tuned! Thank you Atria Books for this beautiful gifted copy.
๐ฌHow is your weekend looking? I hope itโs looking wonderful and Iโm here rooting for you!
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Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Beaโs warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers.
Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. In these exotic surroundings, Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the USโballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But in truth, Robert works for American intelligence, Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husbandโs boss, and their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they donโt really understand.
Alternating between past and present as all of the secrets are revealed, What Could Be Saved is an unforgettable novel about a family shattered by loss and betrayal, and the beauty that can exist even in the midst of brokenness.
