By Kate Johnson
The Silver Boat by Luanne Rice has a plot that will pique interest, laden with family and relationship history.
Dar McCarthy and her sisters, no longer close, convene at their family home before it is sold for taxes. As they pack up their tangible memories, they reminisce upon their dead mother and departed father, a shipbuilder who was last seen in Ireland 22 years before.
Add to the mix a nephew addicted to drugs, a separation, and a hindered love interest, and the thread of the story snarls a bit; the reader tends to get lost in the details.
The tale culminates in a trip for the sisters to Ireland to try to solve their family's mystery once and for all--in the end, everybody's troubles are resolved and the kin are presumably closer than ever.
A good read for a lazy afternoon--less so for a novel to connect with on a deeper level.
