In Willam Landay’s latest novel, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me, a woman goes missing in November of 1975. Did she leave her family or come to harm? As the years pass, the case grows cold. Though there are circumstantial reasons to suspect her husband, a criminal defense lawyer, no one is charged.
Decades later, an author and family friend turns his writer’s eye to the story.
All That Is Mine I Carry With Me has an interesting, almost metafiction structure with four distinct narrative voices revealing individual accounts of the tragedy and aftermath: the writer, memorializing the daughter's confusion and loss; the mother herself, observing her children from a mysterious vantage point; her youngest son in early adulthood, managing complicated feelings about his father; and the husband as he deals with age-related memory issues in the final months of his life. It's both an emotional family drama and a compelling mystery with multiple twists.
Fans of William Landay’s bestselling 2012 novel Defending Jacob who've been anticipating the author's next psychological suspense story for more than a decade may sense the line between fiction and fantasy blurring in the opening paragraph of All That is Mine I Carry With Me.
After I finished writing my last novel, I fell into a long silence. You might call it writer’s block, but most writers don’t use that term or even understand it. When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty. I don’t know why this silence settled over me. Now that it’s over, I don’t like to think about it. I only know that for months, then a year, then two years, I could not write.
Alicia Cavitt
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