To Be Sung Underwater - Judith Toomey

Judith Toomey, who has marched resolutely forward throughout her life for nearly thirty years, finally chances a glance behind her at age forty-four. When she does, she is shocked to find she has been dragging the ghost of her first love, Willy Blunt, since she was a teenager in rural Nebraska. This realization throws her entire world into upheaval and forces her to confront and finally come to terms with the choices she made as a young woman. In To Be Sung Underwater (Back Bay, $14.99), Tom Mc- Neal gives us Judith and Willy’s story, one that explores the nuances of love, regret, hope, and finding a way back to those we abandoned long ago.