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Throughout her acclaimed, award-winning job, novelist Lara Vapnyar has constantly impressed critics with her dazzling integrity, empathy, and humor - yet never before have Vapnyar's talents been as flawlessly matched or shone as brightly such as her captivating latest novel, The Scent of Pine. Though Lena is merely thirty-eight, she detects herself in the grip of the midlife turmoil. She feels out of place in her adoptive country, her job has stalled, and her matrimony has tumbled into a spiral of apathy and distrust - it appears impossible she will ever find joy again. But then she matches Ben, a failed musician turned reluctant educational, who is merely as lost as she actually is. They hit up a precarious companionship and soon amaze themselves by embarking on an impulsive weekend experience. Within the drive to Ben's remote control cabin in Maine, Lena begins to start, for the first time in her life, about the tumultuous summer season she spent as a counselor in a Soviet children's camp two decades before, when she was just sensing relationship and her own sexuality. At the same time when Russia itself was in turmoil, the once-placid world of the camp was growing similarly unsettled, with unexplained disappearances and secret goings - on among the list of staff; Lena and her closest friend are haunted with what they witnessed, or didn't see, and by the fallout from those youthful relationships. It had been a time of intense feelings, dilemma, and passions, and finally very little turned out to be exactly as it looked. As Lena unveils to Ben secrets she's long kept hidden, the lovers commence to discover together not only the dazzling truths buried in her recent, but also more immediate lessons about the urgency of the short, stolen time they have got together. A stirring, alluring, and breathtaking book with an remarkable twist, The Scent of Pine is both a poignant love storyline and a provocative tale of loneliness, longing, youthful romanticism, and the fickle nature of desire.
