A Mysterious Review of …
What You Wish For by Janet Dawson.
Review summary: This is first and foremost a novel of friendship, though there is a thread of suspense running through its parallel storylines spanning decades, involving four lifelong friends, and how events of the past both influence and affect actions in the present. (Click here for text of full review.)
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What You Wish For
Janet Dawson
Perseverance Press (September 2012)
Publisher synopsis: History professor Lindsey Page has a quiet, well-ordered life, but it's about to get complicated. Her daughter, with whom she has a troubled relationship, shows up on her doorstep. The immigrant woman Lindsey is interviewing for a book asks her for help in reclaiming the son taken from her during a massacre in her Salvadoran village. And her closest friends, the three women Lindsey has known since their college days in Berkeley where they witnessed the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, are hiding secrets that will forever change those friendships. Lindsey must grapple with questions of family identity, nature vs. nurture, truth in wartime, the ethics of power for latter-day robber barons in the US and Central America, and the law of unforeseen consequences.
Moving back and forth from the 1970s to the present, from the San Francisco Bay Area to El Salvador this sprawling saga follows Lindsey, her friends, and family through tumultuous political, social, and cultural changes and choices.
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