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To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal is "the epic love story of a woman trying to remember, and the man who could not even begin to forget," writes reviewer Tara Pettit about this Hopkinton Public Library Notable Book.

Nearly 30 years after she leaves her childhood home, Judith Whitman wonders if she's missed her chance at real happiness in Rufus Sage, Nebraska.

The lifelong regret Judith feels from leaving Willy Blunt when she went to college inspires her to pack up and re-experience life with him. She abruptly leaves her husband, her teenage daughter and her life on the West Coast to return to Rufus Sage and spend time with Willy.

Little does Judith realize that bridging the gap between the past and present is always more complicated than it seems.

"To Be Sung Underwater tells the story of one woman's wrestling with the present realities of a life she created after shedding her hometown skin and abandoning the lover who knew her best," Petit writes in her review.

Author Tom McNeal (Goodnight, Nebraska) intricately develops the emotional ties between his characters, capturing the essence of the human heart while rejoicing in the restorative power of reconnection, Petit says in choosing this Notable Book.

Other books suggested by the library:

Nonfiction

Reading Jackie by William Kuhn
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

Fiction

I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
Rescue by Anita Shreve
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin