At the Water’s Edge is more similar to Water for Elephants than Ape House in tone and time period, maybe that’s why I preferred it to the other Gruen novel I read this year. Maddie is an American society wife during WW2; she is married to Ellis Hyde although their relationship is constantly entwined with Hank, Ellis’ best friend. Colonel Hyde, Ellis’ father, discovered the Loch Ness monster and took the blurry pictures people are so skeptical of; in a drunken state Ellis berates his […]