We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage a family and human resilience in the face of tragedy from Wally Lamb the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is TrueAfter years of marriage and three children Anna Ohwife mother outsider artisthas fallen in love with Viveca the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success They plan to wed in the Oh familys hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandoras Box of toxic secretsdark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs livesWe Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage family and the inexorable need for understanding and connection told in the alternating voices of the Ohsnonconformist Anna 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 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 artWith humor and compassion Wally Lamb brilliantly captures the essence of human experience and the ways in which we search for love and meaning in our lives.
