A review by never4get
To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal
3.0
Somewhat disjointed back and forth love story across 30 yrs. Judith traces her former lover from a luminous summer - to find a broken man who never forgot her. Final denouement as they rebuild a tender time together is poignant, but unbelievable.
In this book Judith goes to live with her father in Nebraska after her parents end their marriage. In Nebraska she meets Willy, who turns out to be her first love. Judith goes off to Stanford University and leaves Willy behind with the promise that they will marry when she has finished college. Instead, Judith ends up ending their relationship by simply not being present for their designated weekly phone call, instead of talking with him about it.
Soon after ending her relationship with Willy, she meets Malcolm and eventually marries him. After 27 years without Willy in her life, Judith is consumed by memories of her time with Willy after her daughter rejects a bedroom set that use to be hers when she was a girl in Nebraska. She takes the bedroom set to a self storage unit and steals any opportunity to spend time with the set. One thing leads to another and she hires a private detective to find Willy. She eventually connects with him and is presented with the reality of what the end of the relationship did to both of them.
In this book Judith goes to live with her father in Nebraska after her parents end their marriage. In Nebraska she meets Willy, who turns out to be her first love. Judith goes off to Stanford University and leaves Willy behind with the promise that they will marry when she has finished college. Instead, Judith ends up ending their relationship by simply not being present for their designated weekly phone call, instead of talking with him about it.
Soon after ending her relationship with Willy, she meets Malcolm and eventually marries him. After 27 years without Willy in her life, Judith is consumed by memories of her time with Willy after her daughter rejects a bedroom set that use to be hers when she was a girl in Nebraska. She takes the bedroom set to a self storage unit and steals any opportunity to spend time with the set. One thing leads to another and she hires a private detective to find Willy. She eventually connects with him and is presented with the reality of what the end of the relationship did to both of them.