Cascade

Praise for CASCADE:

“Set during the Depression, Maryanne O’Hara’s luminous first novel centers on a woman torn between big-city dreams and life as a small-town wife and mother…Gorgeously written and involving, Cascade explores the age-old conflict between a woman’s perceived duty and her deepest desires, but in O’Hara’s skilled hands the struggle feels fresh and new.”—People Magazine, “People Pick”

“Cascade unfolds like a Shakespearean tragedy, with an ending you won’t see coming…[T]he novel becomes something that you can’t take your eyes from or stop

thinking about in wonder.”—Boston Globe

“When [Dez] falls in love with another man, an outsider and a Jew, and then a dead body turns up, the trouble escalates, and so will the rate at which you turn the pages. Cascade is perfect for sitting by the fire on a chilly day contemplating the immutability of things.”—Slate Magazine, “Best Books, 2012”

“Compelling and fascinating, the story unfolds in such unexpected ways, and with such gathering tension, that I couldn’t stop until I’d read the final, beautifully written, line.”—Kim Edwards, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter and Lake of Dreams

“Maryanne O’Hara has created a splendid heroine…A lovely, intelligent and deeply satisfying novel.”—Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy and Eva Moves the Furniture