{"id":47965,"date":"2021-04-27T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47965"},"modified":"2022-11-01T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:31:40","slug":"what-could-be-saved-by-liese-ohalloran-schwarz-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/what-could-be-saved-by-liese-ohalloran-schwarz-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could Be Saved by Liese O&#8217;Halloran Schwarz [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47890\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/What-Could-Be-Saved-Liese-OHalloran-Schwarz-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/What-Could-Be-Saved-Liese-OHalloran-Schwarz-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/03\/What-Could-Be-Saved-Liese-OHalloran-Schwarz-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Here\u2019s where veteran narrator Lisa Flanagan excels: unflaggingly individualizing myriad varied characters. Here\u2019s where she disappoints: stumbling over non-English words and using a grating French accent. Quibbles aside, Flanagan consistently, remarkably maintains distinct voices for the peripatetic Preston family in Liese O&#8217;Halloran Schwarz\u2019s (<em>The Possible World,\u00a0<\/em>2018) dual narratives set 47 years apart.<\/p>\n<p>In 1972, Robert Preston relocates wife Genevieve and their three children to Bangkok, where they are surrounded by fellow ex-pats, high walls, and exclusive privilege. Robert works mysterious long hours; Genevieve manages servants, throws parties, and has an affair. The children adapt, until middle child Philip disappears.<\/p>\n<p>In DC in 2019, Robert is long dead, Genevieve has dementia, oldest child Bea is still formidably responsible, and youngest child Laura is a middle-aged artist. And then an email arrives claiming Philip is still alive. Only Laura believes and impulsively returns to Thailand to bring the stranger home.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond her protagonists, Schwarz provides Flanagan with an enhancing supporting cast \u2013 the biting wives, the na\u00efve village girls, the cynical colleagues. Over 15.5 hours, Flanagan adroitly closes Schwarz\u2019s almost-half-century gap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/What-Could-Be-Saved-\/pid=9745572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist Online<\/em>, March 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s where veteran narrator Lisa Flanagan excels: unflaggingly individualizing myriad varied characters. Here\u2019s where she disappoints: stumbling over non-English words and using a grating French accent. 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