We Are Water by Wally Lamb

We Are Water by Wally Lamb

"In his singularly perceptive voice, Lamb immerses his characters and the novel's readers in powerful moments of hope and redemption and shocking descriptions of violence and abuse... fascinating."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

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 True.

After 27 years of marriage and three children, Anna Oh--wife, mother, outsider artist--has fallen in love with Viveca, the wealthy Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her success. They plan to wed in the Oh family's hometown of Three Rivers in Connecticut. But the wedding provokes some very mixed reactions and opens a Pandora's Box of toxic secrets--dark and painful truths that have festered below the surface of the Ohs' lives.

We Are Water is a layered portrait of marriage, family, and the inexorable need for understanding and connection, told in the alternating voices of the Ohs--nonconformist, 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 art.

With 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.

She's Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin' and Hoping, and We Are Water are among Wally Lamb's five New York Times bestselling novels. She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, his first two works of fiction, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and Oprah's Book Club choices. Couldn't Keep It to Myself, I'll Fly Away, and You Don't Know Me are three volumes of essays by students in Lamb's writing workshop at York Correctional Prison in Connecticut, where he has volunteered for two decades as a facilitator. He splits his time between Connecticut and New York.