Mark Twain wrote: Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes today and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench.
Category: Drama
Average Rating: 3.0
Two women, each cast adrift by unforseen events in their lives, meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship.
Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. Her marriage badly frayed by years of stress, she comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life.
Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity. In an attempt to recapture a sense of her pre-married life, she rekindles her passion for writing, determined to find her own voice again. But surprisingly, as she does so, Beth also finds herself channeling the voice of an unknown boy, exuberant in his perceptions of the world around him if autistic in his expression -- a voice she can share with Olivia -- is it Anthony?) -- that brings comfort and meaning to them both.
Rating: 3
This is a poignant story, but I can't get past the paranormal element that underlies the drama. Except for Anthony, the characters are well drawn and believable. Debra Messing performs well, although I would have preferred a bit more distinction in the character voicing. I'm sure this story would appeal to many readers, but it's just not my thing.
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