Fault Line by Laurie Alberts

   It's been a slow reading week so far, but this book was worth the time. Fault Line is a stark, uncompromising view of Laurie Albert's life and her relationship with Kim Janik. It is unapologetic, grim and doesn't hesitate in its revelations.
   Laurie is sixteen when she meets Kim, a junior at Harvard. They quickly form a relationship that is fragile, broken and unyielding from the beginning. Both Laurie and Kim are broken vessels and spend their on and off relationship of fifteen years trying to seal the leaks with pieces of each other, other men (in Laurie's case) and a quest for greater knowledge (Kim's case).
   Laurie Albert's writes the book in response to Kim's death, an event that shakes her core despite the fact that she has been a wife and mother for more than seven years and has not had any contact with Kim in about ten. Her writing is beautiful in its honesty. She spares herself no criticism, whether her own or the reader's. She bares herself in the process and tries to be equally honest about Kim, though I think in her love she spare's him a little.


Overall Opinion:

Fault Line is a haunting story that demands that its readers look at themselves and ask their own hard questions.


Rating:

Yes!