![]() The meaning of this is not readily at hand. She is drawn by his darkness to care for him, a darkness that soon takes the form of a dementia that runs young in his bloodline. Wasted and wrecked, Wade marries the emotionally intrepid Ann. The other daughter runs away, never to return. ![]() Jenny’s is not an act of faith it is an act of senseless destruction. ![]() When we learn that Wade’s first wife, Jenny, killed their 6-year-old, May, we are in the very antipode of a Bible story. May, in the back seat, sits with her head down on her knees, perfectly still.” The image is Abrahamic, but the act itself isn’t. We first meet Ann, the book’s conscience and sleuth, as she tries to imagine a horrific moment faced by her husband, Wade: “When Ann’s mind opens up again like an eye, what is most startling is how peaceful the scene has become. ![]() What Can Explain a Mother’s Murder of Her Child?, a Novel Asks With an act of unspeakable violence at its heart, “Idaho,” Emily Ruskovich’s debut novel, is about not only loss, grief and redemption, but also, most interestingly, the brutal disruptions of memory. ![]()
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