The Cottagers A Novel [Paperback]

Cyrus Collingwood, age nineteen, suspects that he may be a genius without a calling. He is a year-round resident of East Sooke, Vancouver Island, and has a natural resentment for the summer cottagers who descend on its rocky beaches. When two vacationing American couples arriveold friends with a complicated historythey become his obsession. Greg and Nicholas are engaged in an academic collaboration that looks more like competition; Samina and Laurel are old friends who have grown apart and developed a strange jealousy. Cyrus spies on the cottagers through their windows, then begins to insinuate himself into their lives. When one of the cottagers goes missing, no one will look at any of the others the same way again.Wise to human foibles, rich with precise and amusing observations.Accomplished in its literary architecture,...sophisticated in its portrait of the tensions between vacationers and year-rounders, and chillingly believable.A complex, intelligent novel. Klimasewiski brings the final curtain down with a satisfyingly wicked twist....A remarkable debut.