Where We Live
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    [synopsis] => The third and final novel in the Lund sibling series, Where We Live continues the story of four Vancouverites, separated in childhood, reunited and now middle-aged, as they navigate urban life, work, relationships, and parenting in the late 2010s. With their familial bond shaped by their divergent adult experiences as well as their shared early childhood in a rural West Coast community, the lives of these siblings cross, separate, and rejoin yet again, in paths informed by nature and by nurture. Subject to the pressures of their environment and remembered or forgotten family history each sibling struggles to realize their aspirations in their search for a true home. BeforeDecember, 2008The message pops up in the airport in Managua, as soon as Ben's smartphone is picking up Wi-Fi again. In the main concourse, there is a highly polished granite floor, so smooth it seems like a mirror, showing everyone what they look like from below, and the usual row of clocks showing different times. Habana, La Paz, Londres, Los Angeles, as if anyone needed to know. As if it isn't always now, wherever you are. He almost doesn't read the message, which is only from his sister Cleo, until a word in the first line catches his eye. Hospital. He skims the message. Cliff, mudslide, spine, intensive care, surgery.Bummer.It's stopped him in his tracks and now Alison has noticed and turned around, stopped too. He clicks his phone off and slides it into the pocket of his shorts, takes a couple of longer strides to catch up with her.Everything okay, dude? she asks.Yeah, he says. Something minor.Shit; he wishes he hadn't seen that message.It won't take long to get through customs, Alison says. It's not a busy airport.Through the glass front he can see a blue sky streaked with the kinds of clouds that say the wind and the water are alive. There are palm trees. And in the distance, far out there, a volcano.He wants to stop and look at the scenery but Alison is leading him through the concourse, to the baggage carousels. The light and the siren go on just as they arrive, and luggage starts appearing on the belt. He sees his bag, first, an olive-green duffel, and then the long case with his board. He thinks he should look for Alison's and scoop it too, but he can't remember exactly which are hers, to be honest, and she grabs them herself before they look familiar. Slings a carrier over her shoulder, pops out the handle of her little wheeled hard case, begins leading the way out of the crowd. "Approaching middle age, Cleo, Mandalay, and Cliff go through a year of unsettling changes to their careers, families, homes, and hearts. As they each discover the future is not what they expected, they must re-imagine who they are and where they want to be. In deft, clear prose, author Karen Hofmann unveils the simple, miraculous transformations that are always at work, though seldom noticed, in everyday life. Where We Live is a fine and richly textured work of art, a story both brilliant and wise." -Catherine Hunter, author of After Light and St. Boniface Elegies "With keen insight that is often astonishing, Karen Hofmann describes the fragility of human connections, with all their beauty and their pain. She adopts a clear-eyed, even unflinching focus while still managing to convey enormous empathy for her characters, despite-or perhaps because of-their flaws. The Lund siblings are very real, very human, and completely unforgettable. At the end of the book, I experienced the satisfaction of having come to know and care for these individuals and the regret in having to say goodbye." -Margie Taylor, author of Rose Addams and Harrow Road "Home is the resonant concept at the heart of this trilogy about the Lund siblings. Hofmann details their widely varied personal and professional lives with intelligence and compassion. As always, her writing is informed by an insightful ethos of socioeconomic and environmental sustainability. Where We Li
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