Waiting for you

Andrew, after a long absence, returns home to his hometown to fulfill his sad duty: to bury his widowed mother. She is planning a stay of just a few days, during which old memories will be broken, especially the tragedy of her beautiful little girl, Eden Close, who lives next door. Adopted Eden never loved her foster mother because the woman didn’t want her, but she loved her foster father. He also loved Andrew and his friends: at first there was only a playmate for them, later an unfulfilled teenage love. Then, on a hot summer night, Andrew woke up to gunfire and horrible screams from the neighbor: Mr. Close had been killed and Eden had been crippled. Now, seventeen years later, Andrew is rethinking the horrific story and finally discovering the hidden connections in the emotional triangle of husband, wife and adopted little girl. As the details of Eden’s past, like the pieces of the puzzle, fall into place, Andrew also recognizes and finally accepts his feelings of secrecy. Anita Shreve's volumes published in Hungarian: The Last Encounter and The Weight of Water.