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When we first meet them, the Murphys are a fortunate, likeable family from greater Boston — not wealthy, but sufficiently well off to have a modest home in Newton and a summer place on Cape Cod. James is a rising corporate executive; his wife, Nora,black and white air max womens, has put her artistic aspirations on hold to care for their three young children — Theo,all black air max for men, Katy, and Molly. All is well, at least outwardly. Nora is vaguely restless with her domestic life and her largely absent husband. James is ready to move up the lifestyle ladder and get a grander house in the far suburbs, while Nora longs for Cambridge, where they spent their early years together.
At this "slippery moment in their marriage," they sell their Newton house and set off to vacation in Rome with the children, their future unsettled but only awaiting their choices, or so they assume. But their happiness is destroyed in an instant, and for all time, when one of the Murphy children is killed in a street accident.
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The death in Rome and its immediate aftermath take place within the first 50 pages or so of "Trompe L'Oeil." The rest of the novel traces the very slow disintegration and reformation of the family under the shadow of their loss. Two more daughters are conceived and born in the fog of their parents' grief. There's a divorce, another marriage, and finally another death. The power of the novel lies in the way it traces the many ways that first death touches everything that comes after it.
Yet that tracing ends finally in mystery. Nora and James and their children can never know who they would be without the loss, and so they are strangely indebted to it. As one of the younger daughters, Sara, wanders through Rome decades later, she thinks of the innocent family she never knew as "memories of a house that exists only in the mind." Sara knows that in that untroubled house, she would likely never have existed at all. What can she make of a tragedy that made her?
Reisman is a writer of unfailingly exquisite prose, and "Trompe L'Oeil" is filled with the kind of lyrical phrases that echo in the mind. The sensuality of Reisman's writing both illuminates and relieves the story's relentless sadness. This is an unabashedly beautiful novel with a harsh and difficult truth at its core.
For more local book coverage, please visit http://chapter16.org/, an online publication of Humanities Tennessee.
‘TROMPE L'OEIL' DISCUSSION
Who: Nancy Reisman
Where: University of Tennessee's Hodges Library
When: 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5
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