Like Ruskin for a new age, Spalding brilliantly interweaves her own life and her subjects in this story of a sensational murder case.In 1982, as Linda Spalding was about to leave Hawaii and embark on a new life in Canada, she was called to jury duty, sitting for the trial of a young woman charged with murder. Maryann Acker was Mormon, eighteen years old, and married to a petty crook and hustler who had hauled her into a life that led eventually to murder on a hillside above one of Hawaiis most beautiful beaches.Twenty years later, Spalding stumbles across the journal she kept through the trial, tracks down Maryann, who is still in jail, and begins a journey into memory, into the twists of fate that spin two lives down such different trajectories. The story is Maryanns but it is also Spaldings, as subject and writer overlap. Like the work of John Ruskin, Linda Spaldings writing brilliantly combines autobiography with the examination of an external subject and, in doing so, offers us profound insights into the vagaries of the human heart.
| ISBN: | 9781551997278 |
| Publication date: | 9th July 2013 |
| Author: | Spalding, Linda |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |