February by Lisa Moore
Synopsis (from Kobo listing)
In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast
of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died.
February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her
husband, Cal, drowns on the rig. It begins in the present-day, more than
twenty-five years later, but spirals back again and again to the "February" that
persists in Helen's mind and heart. Writing at the peak of her form, her
steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to
render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds,
Lisa Moore gives us her strongest work yet. Here is a novel about complex love
and cauterizing grief, about past and present and how memory knits them
together, about a fiercely close community and its universal struggles, and
finally about our need to imagine a future, no matter how fragile, before we
truly come home. This is a profound, gorgeous, heart-stopping work from one of
our best writers.
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