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‘Carry the One’ by Carol Anshaw

Tracing the fallout for three siblings after car accident takes the life of a child

By Susan Straight

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  March 11, 2012

“Carry the One’’ is a brilliant feat of storytelling, a total immersion into a family deeply injured, fractured, wounded in every way by a tragic death that occurs after the last truly happy, free moment in the lives of three siblings, a backyard wedding in rural Wisconsin in the early 1980s. Carol Anshaw, in her fourth book, takes chances from the first moments of the novel.

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