![]() As Ariah's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste, they must confront not only their personal history but America's murky past: the despoiling of the landscape, and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children of secrets and sins of lawsuits, murder, and, eventually, redemption. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children - a seemingly perfect existence.īut the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. The Widow Bride of The Falls, as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption.Ī man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, one of the great artistic forces of our time ( The Nation). ![]()
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