Waiting On: We Are Water by Wally Lamb

We Are Water by Wally Lamb.
Publication Date: October 22, 2013

From Goodreads: 
In middle age, Annie Oh—wife, mother, and outsider artist—has shaken her family to its core. After twenty-seven years of marriage and three children, Annie has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy, cultured, confident Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.

Annie and Viveca plan to wed in the Oh family's hometown of Three Rivers, Connecticut, where gay marriage has recently been legalized. But the impending wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora's box of toxic secrets—dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs' lives.

We Are Water is an intricate and layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs—nonconformist Annie; her ex-husband, Orion, a psychologist; Ariane, the do-gooder daughter, and her twin, Andrew, the rebellious only son; and free-spirited Marissa, the youngest Oh. Set in New England and New York during the first years of the Obama presidency, it is also a portrait of modern America, exploring issues of class, changing social mores, the legacy of racial violence, and the nature of creativity and art.

With humor and breathtaking compassion, Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience in vivid and unforgettable characters struggling to find hope and redemption in the aftermath of trauma and loss. We Are Water is vintage Wally Lamb—a compulsively readable, generous, and uplifting masterpiece that digs deep into the complexities of the human heart to explore the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.

Over the years, Wally Lamb has solidified his spot in my heart as one of my favorite authors. He is an expert at creating lengthy, beautiful family histories (please, please read I Know This Much is True for a perfect display of his talents at long and engaging prose) so I am excited to see how he will tackle the family dynamic in this novel. After loving so many of his books, I have goosebumps of anticipation to read this one. Cannot wait!

"Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine that highlights upcoming releases that we are stoked about!