The Widow Nash A Novel Jamie Harrison 9781619029286 Books
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Winner of the 2017 Reading the West Award
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
"What keeps you reading is not just the quality of the writing, which is just absolutely wonderful, but also to find out Is [Dulcy] going to [remake herself]? Can this be successful? Or is she going to be found out?" ―Nancy Pearl, Morning Edition, NPR
Dulcy Remfrey has traveled the globe with her eccentric father, Walton, a wealthy entrepreneur obsessed with earthquakes and catastrophe, searching to cure his long battle with syphilis through any crackpot means necessary. Their deep connection is tested, however, when Walton returns from an African expedition without any of the proceeds from the sale of his gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the great sum of money, his health declining rapidly. Her father's business partner (and her ex-fiancé) insists Dulcy come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic notebooks―a dozen in all, wrapped in brightly colored silk―which may hold clues to the missing funds. Yet when her father dies before they can locate the money, Dulcy falls under suspicion. Petrified of being forced to spend the rest of her life with her ex-love, Dulcy decides to disappear from the train bringing her father's body home.
Is it possible to disappear from your old life and create another? Dulcy travels the West reading stories about her presumed death and settles into a small Montana town where she is reborn as Mrs. Nash, a wealthy young widow with no burden of family. But her old life won't let go so easily, and soon her ex-fiancé is on her trail, threatening the new life she is so eager to create.
The Widow Nash is a riveting narrative, filled with a colorful cast of characters, rich historical details, and epic set pieces. Europe in summer. New York in fall. Africa in winter. The lively, unforgettable town of Livingston, Montana. And in Dulcy, Jamie Harrison has created an indelible heroine sure to capture the hearts of readers everywhere.
"This gorgeously written historical novel follows Dulcy, a young woman in 1904 who attempts to flee her late father's business problems―and her violent ex-fiance's grasp―by traveling west and posing as a wealthy widow." ―Entertainment Weekly
The Widow Nash A Novel Jamie Harrison 9781619029286 Books
Dulcy is the type of heroine I embrace: at times overwhelmed and beaten but then coming into her own and leading her life with passion, toughness and intelligence. When I read fiction I want a story that transports me. When I have finished I want to have to remind myself where I actually am and what time it is. Harrison's book did that for me.Product details
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The Widow Nash A Novel Jamie Harrison 9781619029286 Books Reviews
What a wonderful book this is! All the characters are colorful and so real, as are the places and events written about. Jamie Harrison's ability to describe every aspect of a scene drew me in and didn't let go. It's smart, evocative, and hard to put down. Dulcy is the kind of woman I would love to be friends with; to cook with, garden with and travel with! I was sad that the book had to end. The characters have stayed with me in a way that doesn't happen with many other novels I've read. I wish I was better at expressing how good this book is. I highly recommend reading The Widow Nash!
I loved this novel so much. Not only does it contain fabulous, rich prose, but the storyline is completely unique. The story of a woman trapped in a loveless, abusive engagement with her father's business partner is a fabulous example of a strong woman protagonist, but Harrison also maintains that tricky balance of making the story relevant to and consistent with the time it takes place. This book left me in awe.
A really fine novel, literature disguised as historical fiction. It's a page turner for sure, because almost every page delivers a surprising moment or twist of plot, but it's also a book that compels one to linger over each sentence, slowly absorbing the marvelous details of period and character that Harrison has lovingly layered throughout. Delicious.
Honestly, I did like this book. BUT... what if the writer had written it in a more straightforward, simpler style? I guess I got a little taxed having to try to decipher what some of it all meant. I eventually figured it out, but it would have been so much more enjoyable had the writer told the tale more directly, with a little less literary obfuscation. It was a fascinating story from an interesting time, but the main character was rather veiled, and the father figure was reprehensible, in spite of the author's eventual attempts to redeem him in some way. I think this is more like a 3.5 star kind of book, but they don't offer that option, so I rounded up.
This is the best book I've read in a while. It's so literate, with many clever turns of phrase. The Widow Nash tells the tale of Dulcy Remfrey, a wealthy (well, upper middle class) widow (well, not entirely) on the lam -- but she's mainly on the lam from her horrible, violent, narcissistic fiancé named Victor Maslingen. Dulcy's relationship with her father is masterfully rendered. He is a character and a half -- narcissistic in his own way but mainly given to flights of geologic or promiscuous fancy. A miner with global interests, his last batch of mine revenue ($1 million, a lot in the early 1900s) has gone missing, and Dulcy gets caught in the vortex of Victor's ruthless search for those funds. Just really well done. It was one of those books I wanted to last forever -- while at the same time being swept up in the desire to "see what happens."
A fixatingly drawn tale of an adventurous—and now fuddle-brained—rogue with a secret worth killing for; his resourceful, spellful daughter; and his skeezy, opportunistic business partner. Harrison’s characters are brightly hued, while their story—of a hard-bitten world and the possibilities of reinvention—has the tight suspense of a racehorse checked in the gate, but the wide-angle grandeur of Panavision.
Call me vulgar, but when a book opens with a young woman, a father who’s dying of syphilis, missing money and a murderous ex-fiancé, I’m all in. It’s the early 1900s, the young woman is twenty-four-year-old Dulcy (short of Leda Cordelia Dulcinea) and her father, Walton Remfrey, is an eccentric but brilliant inventor and engineer with a penchant for women (hence the syphilis) and a love of travel. He partners with Victor, Dulcy’s ex-fiancé in a series of African gold mines, but when he returns to the United States after the sale of the mines there is no money and he is dying. Dulcy goes to Seattle to be with her father before he dies and to try and determine what has happened to over a million dollars, even though it means being near her sociopathic ex—who is even more unhinged at the loss of so much of his money. This is just the beginning of The Widow Nash by Jamie Harrison.
In short order, Walton dies without ever becoming lucid. Dulcy is allowed to take his body back East to be buried, but she already knows that Victor’s obsession with both her and the money means she is expected to return…and soon. She decides faking her death is the best way to get her freedom and begin her own search for the money. The only clue she has is a series of journals her father kept, which she managed to steal from Victor. That, plus access to other bank accounts he set up during the years they traveled together, is enough for her to establish herself in a small town in Montana and try and unravel her father’s mystery.
At this point in The Widow Nash the sensationalistic plot quiets down, which provides for some much needed breathing space and allows Harrison to bring Dulcy more fully to life. She does this with panache, infusing the outwardly quiet and cautious Dulcy with a modern mindset that makes for wonderful reading—mostly because it is refreshing to read about a woman who, on the one hand, has to pretend to be a widow to be accepted, but who is thinking things like this when being talked down to by a man
…if he’d explained his reasoning with humor, rather than condescension, she might have stayed sane; now she’d grind his bones to make her bread.
YES! With lines like these Harrison smashes the sweet society lady of yore and shows her to be as sick and tired of mansplaining as contemporary women are. More importantly, from beginning to end, Dulcy doesn’t just inwardly seethe—she takes her fate into her own hands and uses her innate resourcefulness to carve out a life of her own.
This juxtaposition of historical fiction, of time and place carefully crafted down to the smallest detail, against Dulcy’s very modern thoughts and actions is what moves The Widow Nash past its plot into something more. The only hitch is that in the shift the plot is lost for a bit. And while I appreciated seeing this woman reinvent herself I became concerned that the mystery and drama, the entertaining part of the novel, had been forgotten. Thankfully, Harrison didn’t forget at all and instead, rallied The Widow Nash to an ending that cements the novel firmly in place as a great summer entertainment.
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Dulcy is the type of heroine I embrace at times overwhelmed and beaten but then coming into her own and leading her life with passion, toughness and intelligence. When I read fiction I want a story that transports me. When I have finished I want to have to remind myself where I actually am and what time it is. Harrison's book did that for me.
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