I thoroughly enjoyed Indiscretion. I did not want to put this novel down; I even read it while on short breaks at work. I went in with really no expectations. All I could gather from the description was that this would be a tale about a love triangle, but as I read on, it became much more.
Charles Dubow is a debut author but y’all know how much I like reading first novels and Indiscretion did not disappoint.
From the beginning, the reader is wooed into wanting to be friends with Harry and Madeline Winslow. They have a wonderful life. They met in college, married, and have a wonderful son. Maddy’s family has a house in Southampton, where they spend summers and holidays. Harry has just won the National Book Award for his second novel and has won the Rome Prize to move to Italy and write his third. From the outside, who could ask for a more perfect life?
Walter, the narrator and Maddy’s best friend since childhood, tells the story. He is a subjective narrator; in some of the stories he was not even present at the time it happened. He begins the story during a wonderful summer weekend that a young woman, Claire, comes to Southampton, and meets the group at a party that the Winslow’s are having. They soon “adopt” Claire and she is spending every weekend in the Hamptons.
The decisions, good/bad, that the characters make that summer will affect the rest of their lives. it is a roller coaster ride learning the back stories and current stories of their lives. I just had to know where the story was going next. The journey to the end is riveting and I was sorry for it to finish.
Indiscretion will be released the first week in February, 2013.
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