Product Details
Touchstone, October 2007
Hardcover, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1416543759
ISBN-13: 9781416543756
Description
Friends since earliest childhood, Annie, Jake, and Mason have a special bond. When Annie's parents die on the same night that she and Mason get married, the three friends decide to raise Annie's infant sister, Opal, together. But their bonds of intimacy, already entangled, become dangerously close, on the line. One fateful night, the three friends goad one another into crossing that line with shocking consequences.
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"The Worst Thing I've Done is a beautiful book, exploring the mysterious, ever-shifting boundaries of love and desire. Drawn with glimpses of startling beauty and a constant sense of discovery, the moments of these lives, ordinary and painful, luminous and haunting, are cast artfully, compellingly, into a remarkable, moving story of acceptance and courage and change."
-- Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter
"Ursula Hegi, always a master of illuminating the human condition, has in this novel the clear tone and brilliance of water in a pond, and the urgency of storm-tossed coasts. Her characters must navigate their own lives and sorrows and passions, and readers will follow along with held breath and hope."
-- Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon
"Ursula Hegi's fearless excavation of passion takes us into gripping and dangerous territory. She is that most subtle and powerful of writers who can illuminate the darkest ambiguities of the human soul - showing us how even the truest love can be shaded with the destructive."
-- Shira Nayman, author of Awake in the Dark
"Ursula Hegi always writes about the important moments between people, filtered through history, both personal and political. She is a writer of grace and immediacy."
-- Meg Wolitzer, author of The Position
"[Heg] is as skilled at piecing together an intricate storytelling design as Annie is at creating beautiful, complex collages.... Hegi, who has written often of large families and difficult relationships, convincingly plumbs the psychological processes of grief."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"The Worst Thing I've Done is the work of a mature and masterful writer at her peak. The layering -- the collage -- of character and point of view, tragedy and healing, creativity and loss, loyalty and fidelity, love and jealousy, all combine with lyrical prose in a story that resonates long after its end."
-- The Washington Post
Ursula Hegi's Books
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Sacred TimeThe bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family.Read More -
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The Vision of Emma BlauUrsula Hegi’s The Vision of Emma Blau is the luminous epic of a bicultural family filled with passion and aspirations, tragedy, and redemption.Read More
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Floating in My Mother's PalmBestselling author Ursula Hegi presents a compelling and mystical story of a young girl growing up in 1950s Germany.Read More
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UNEARNED PLEASURES AND OTHER STORIESBestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love—familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent—in this stunning collection of stories.Read More
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SALT DANCERSSalt Dancers is Ursula Hegi’s poignant and superbly written novel of self-discovery and the power of resurrection.Read More
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INTRUSIONSUrsula Hegi’s funny and original novel explores the doubts, decisions, and "might-have-beens" that mark not only the writing process—but life...Read More
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STONES FROM THE RIVERStones from the River is Ursula Hegi’s daring, dramatic, and complex novel of life in Germany through an unspeakable time.Read More
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