On this Day A Novel
On This Day, a novel by Nathaniel Bellows, published by HarperCollins in 2003, spans 265 pages and is presented in English. The story follows eighteen-year-old Warren and his twenty-year-old sister, Joan, as they navigate the aftermath of their father’s death from cancer and their mother’s suicide. Set in a small coastal town in Maine, they face emotional turmoil and financial challenges, particularly as their father’s partner seeks to undermine their inheritance from the family nursery.
Readers will find a poignant exploration of Warren’s perspective as he grapples with his family’s dark past and the complexities of his feelings for a young single mother who once worked for his father. The narrative delves into themes of memory and the struggle for independence, highlighting the siblings’ efforts to create a sense of home amidst their desperate circumstances. This edition offers a thoughtful look at the intricacies of familial relationships and personal growth in the face of adversity.
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Warren is eighteen. His sister, Joan, is twenty. Their father has died of cancer, and their mother has committed suicide — they’re on their own, in a small coastal town in Maine, under desperate emotional circumstances, with the holidays approaching.
Their situation worsens as their father’s partner ruthlessly strips them of financial interest in the plant nursery they had owned together and a ghoulish uncle and aunt try to exploit them. Things grow even more complicated as Warren becomes increasingly puzzled by his attraction to a beautiful young single mother who used to work for his father.
Told from Warren’s point of view, On This Day is not only a moving story of two young people’s struggle to make a place and a home for themselves, but a consideration of memory — the necessity to face the secrets of a family’s dark past in order to exorcise them.
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