6/22/2023 0 Comments Cool water by dianne warren![]() ![]() Which is, of course, how it is in real life. ![]() A great deal is going on here and no one really knows anything about what is really happening to anyone they just think they do. As Lee Torgeson, one of the novel's dozen or so main characters, puts it, "Everybody knows everything in Juliet." But as it turns out, Torgeson is wrong. Juliet is not a woman, but a town of 1,011 people on the edge of Saskatchewan's massive sand dunes, a town where on the surface it would appear that very little happens. ![]() Published first in Canada (under the title "Cool Water"), where it won the prestigious Governor General's Award in 2010, it's the first novel by Dianne Warren, who has previously published three collections of short stories. 'Juliet in August" is a wonderful novel that shines like the bright sun on the dusty western prairie where this story is set. ![]()
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