Sweet Water [Paperback]

A literary detective story in which the expatriate writer Henry Jamess clandestine visits to a water spa in Vermont are discovered one summer by the hotels current owners, a biographer and hose trainer. Their debate whether to reveal their discovery to others begins to unravel the secrets of their own marriage, kept since they met as teenagers at a cathedral school where Greta mysteriously suffered from the stigmata.A spacious novel about the feel of America its hydrophobia and fear of immersion, an ambitious and richly imagined tale of romantic intrigue by a gifted stylist. (Publishers Weekly)