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Title: The Measures Between Us
Author: Ethan Hauser
Narrator: Ben Bartolone
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-22-14
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
An unprecedented storm is threatening the East Coast, swelling the rivers and muddying the roads, and in a small suburb of Boston, a group of intimates and strangers struggles to confront a rapidly changing world. Vincent, a high school shop teacher, grapples with whether to hospitalize his only daughter. Jack, a research intern at a local college, tries to make sense of the world through the climate data he helps to gather. Henry, a young psychology professor, tests the bounds of his marriage, while Lucinda, his pregnant wife, harbors her own secret. And at the heart of this soaring story, at the center of all of these characters, is Cynthia, a young woman uncertain of everything but her sadness.
The Measures Between Us delicately and powerfully traces the spider web of connections that bind us together and the void of mystery that lies beyond. It is an accounting and an affirmation of lives in consideration of their end-beautifully crafted and deeply moving.
Members Reviews:
This book had a couple of different plots that never ...
This book had a couple of different plots that never came together. Very confusing. I am not sure what it was about, in the end. The book made little sense
The Measure Between Us is a good read
The book is interesting in that the author takes you on a journey with all the characters. You have insight, intrigue, and interest in all the characters. Good story telling.
Too fractured and weird
Not at all what I expected from the review I read..really disappointed...would not recommend. I'm glad I got it on sale.
A book about the storms of life, and how we weather (or avoid) them...
I'd rate this 3.5 stars, maybe 3.75.
The theme song from the hit television show Cheers said, "Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got." Sometimes that is absolutely true. Although life is often filled with the ordinary, punctuated by moments of drama or stress (or both), simply making it through the every day struggles we face can be difficult and require more strength and fortitude than we can imagine.
Ethan Hauser's novel The Measures Between Us is a beautifully written book about people making it through the struggles of everyday life, and coping with the bumps and bruises along the way. Vincent, a high school shop teacher, and his wife, Mary, are contemplating sending their troubled daughter, Cynthia, to a mental hospital because they fear she might harm herself. Vincent seeks the counsel of a former student, Henry, who is now a psychologist. Meanwhile, Cynthia, both before and after her time in the hospital, has an on-again, off-again relationship with Jack, an intern on a project that tries to understand climate change, particularly flooding, and how it affects those who choose to stay in their homes during floods.
Henry's life is not without its own problems. He and his wife, Lucinda, are expecting a baby, and although their relationship appears to be strong, both are struggling--Henry with fidelity, and Lucinda with feelings of dread about her pregnancy and her life with Henry, because she isn't sure if she can handle how much he loves her.
I was completely captivated by Hauser's writing and the way he spun each of his characters' stories, but ultimately, I found this book not entirely satisfying. Other characters in the book are brought into the plot and appear at its periphery, but you're never quite sure why.
