Ich Warte Auf Ein Wort Von Dir Roman (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Lila Cole’s life was formed by her twin brother Billy. When he is killed by police she comes apart at the seams. As Lila sinks into a morass of grief, dark secrets start bubbling to the surface. Lila and her husband Patrick are both successful professors. Patrick never questioned his wife’s unusually strong bond with her brother, or her reticence to speak about her parents. Patrick is quite content with a calm ordered life until his wife goes off the rails and everything she has ever told him about her past may be false. Lila’s brother Billy was her hero, her advisor, the glue that cemented her life together. Lila believed Billy threw away a promising future marrying Ashley. Her relationship with her sister-in-law is not close. Patrick’s calm life is blown to smithereens by his wife’s reaction to her brother’s death. He was always told the twins were orphans, their parents died with they were children. Patrick is blindsided to discover their mother alive, well, and not at all nice. Complicated, fast paced, and wonderfully readable, this is a page turner. Lila and Billy are twins so when Billy commits suicide by police Lila is naturally devastated. However, there are many secrets about her life with Billy that Lila has no recollection of. She has hardly any memory of her childhood up until age 16. This book is as fragmented and mysterious as Lila's memory. At times it is frustrating. There are so many events that occur yet there are just as many unresolved questions. I don't mind unresolved questions as long as they have a purpose and I don't think all of these questions do. What happens with the CPS? Does Lila get better? Does Patrick ever tell Lila of his mistake? Does Lila ever go back to work? Does William tell anybody that the gun was his? I'd like a little more information.
What do You think about Ich Warte Auf Ein Wort Von Dir Roman (2011)?
This story made "Flowers in the Attic" look like a walk in the park.
—matilda
This is a very compelling work of contemporary fiction.
—nessie2012
Great story about some serious family dysfunction!
—meet9090
Not a bad read but too melodramatic for my taste.
—swati
