Benoîte-Marie (Berie) is our narrator.  We start with her in Paris, where she’s traveling with her husband,  who is lecturing on Tay-Sachs disease.  Berie is vaguely dissatisfied, filled with ennui about her marriage.  She muses about her teenage-hood in Horsehearts, upstate NY, and her deep friendship with Silsby Chaussée.  It’s a story told in wonderfully crafted, evocative prose, that captures not so much a story arc, but rather the feeling of being almost grown up, wandering, being consumed by a friendship, finding an identity while losing your innocence, feeling lost […]