Siracusa by Delia Ephron
Beware of shared vacations.
Couples/friends author Michael
and his wife, Lizzie, a journalist take a shared vacation with Finn and Taylor
and their ever present daughter, Snow.
The destination they chose was Siracusa, a small town made of rock in
Sicily. Immediately things start to fall
apart in strange hidden ways. Finn and
Lizzie have a past relationship they can’t
seem to shake. Taylor is completely
joined at the hip to Snow. Michael and
Snow develop a special closeness that no one can understand and Michael brings
along his own set of issues. Snow is ten
years old and at times we wonder if there isn’t something developmental going on with her, but then she surprises us
so we think, “hmm. Maybe not, maybe Taylor is just a very neurotic mother. “
Both marriages don’t need much to push them over the edge.
There are secret meetings, playing with
each other’s minds, reading each other’s minds and we watch the train wreck approaching
to take everyone under.
On the other hand, we notice something sinister happening
ever so subtly in the background that
makes the ending well worth the journey.
I know I’m talking in riddles, but you just have to read it
for yourself. Giving too much away is giving too much away. This isn’t a happy story but it sure was fun
figuring it out as I went along.
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