Book Report #83 - Skinner's Drift

Skinner's Drift: A Novel by Lisa Fugard

I spoke alongside Lisa at an author's forum and really liked her so I picked up her book. Lisa's from South Africa. Her first novel's title is the name of the farm in South Africa where most of the action plays out.

Lisa kept me hooked because I desperately needed to know what happened to the protagonist Eva's mother. For some reason she died and I got the impression that Eva's father was to blame but even with all the foreshadowing I couldn't figure out exactly what was going on. Eva was still bitter about it into adulthood and held it against her dying father.

The point of view switched a lot, oftentimes to characters that I thought were almost too minor to be deserving of a say. But hey, it worked in As I Lay Dying. She also used a lot of Afrikaans in the characters' dialogue. That was tough.

General consensus: Good suspense. Good imagery. Not really sure what the hell happened, though.