7/3/2023 0 Comments Carry the one by carol anshawWhen you add us up, you always have to carry the one. In one sense, the tragedy has no meaning and outwardly they go on with their lives. Carol Anshaws New York Times bestselling novel is one of the most acclaimed books of the year. Carry the One tracks the quintet for the next 25 years, tracing the ramifications of the accident. Dazed, bleeding, stuck inside the tipped-over vehicle, the five sprawl ‘as still as sacks of flour’, while the broken body of ten-year-old Casey Redman lies in the road looking ‘something like an extremely advanced yoga pose, limbs bent in unlikely ways’. Unexpectedly, a young girl materialises in the road and they crash. Five stoned and inebriated young people are driving home in the early hours after a wedding in rural Wisconsin: Nick and Alice, the bride’s brother and sister Tom, a folk singer of modest talent Maude, the groom’s sister, sleepily making out with Alice, her fellow bridesmaid and behind the wheel Nick’s new girlfriend Olivia, a postal worker.
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