Beatrice is good at pretending.
In beautiful, spare prose, The Wisdom of Winter explores the tenacity of misbeliefs, the magic in forgiveness, and the artistry of the natural world in healing the past..
She must decide who she is.
Or hope and renewal.
Anxiety and loss.
In the still point, she sees her crossroads: should she carry on the known path or step into uncertainty? Her future rests on her interpretation of change.
But when a cascade of events steers her back to her childhood home, a discovery in a rundown barn quiets her.
She numbs and sidesteps and, despite inner warnings, artfully outruns thoughts of her family, the girl she once was, and the woman she pretends to be.
What\'s false is celebrated.
What\'s real is hidden.
Years later in San Francisco, incongruities in Beatrice\'s life abound.
She complies.
But when tragedy penetrates their rural Vermont bubble, Beatrice is thrust into a world that tells her she has no place unless she hides her depth, pretties up, and falls in line.
Insulated from societal mores by her glamorous mother and humble father, six-year-old Beatrice-barefoot in ratty overalls-tunes into animals, senses the unspoken, and thrives.
Beatrice is good at pretending
