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Carry the One commences in the hours following Carmen's wedding reception, whenever a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy friends accidently hits and kills a woman on a dark country road. For another 25 years, those involved, including Carmen and her brother and sister, connect, disconnect, and reconnect with each other and their sufferer. As one character says, "Once you add us up, you will have to carry the main one."Through friendships and love affairs; matrimony and divorce; parenthood, holidays, and the moderate tragedies and joys of ordinary days, Carry the One shows how one life affects another and how those who prosper and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we'd expect. Deceptively short and simple in its idea, this novel derives its power and appeal from the author's beautifully exact use of words; her sympathy for her very recognizable, flawed heroes; and her persuasive perception in the transforming causes of their time and love.
