It’s a deep question, and indeed, this is a deep book. It is a love story, but it is also much, much more. It is a tale of life, death, and life beyond death.
The story begins with Lorinda, the heroine, facing murder accusations. All the evidences point to her, but she says she did not do it. Of course. That’s what they all say.
But in Lorinda’s case, that’s all she would say. She wouldn’t explain how it happened that she had a knife in her hand and the dead man in the same room. Why did she stay in the room with him? Why did she bathe him? Why were there flowers around his face? Was she in love with him? But he was not her boyfriend, and she was definitely in love with her boyfriend. Did he try to attack her? Was it self-defense? What really happened that night? She would not say. They would not understand, she kept thinking to herself.
Personally, that intro alone was enough to hook me. I had to find out what happened.
Reading the book felt like running downstairs to meet your date – it was easy and exciting, and the ending was as wonderful as the beginning.
“Cry Dance” is the winner of the 2012 Sharp Writ Book Award in the General Fiction category.
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