Word: leimbach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marti Leimbach...
...Marti Leimbach's new novel, Sun Dial Street, explores the depth and permanence of this filial "tattoo" and weaves it into the fabric of her witty and sensitive novel with literary innovation. After penning Dying Young, which won her critical acclaim, Leimbach creates an equally bittersweet story that sparks the reader's imagination with its details and elicits a sense of identification with its down-to-earth depiction of events...
...that ties the family together; but as he enters the alien realm of his mother and sister's lives, he slowly understands the concept of space. His sister sometimes hates his fraternal interference and his mother ignores his advice. Gradually, each character learns through the trails and tribulations which Leimbach brings home to us so sensitively, that familial relationships precede all others and that the one reliable source of support is the family...
...Dying Young makes its way into bookstores, all that money begins to look like a canny investment. There has always been a healthy market for doomed romance. Furthermore, this novel plays upon a current preoccupation -- explicitly stated in its title -- without raising the troubling specter of AIDS. Finally, Leimbach, 26, proves herself to be both a deft writer and a shrewd judge of just how much sentimentality her traffic will bear...
...also has the chance to live out a fantasy: two men devoted to her, one of them virile and the other literally dying in her arms. Whether Leimbach intends Hilary to be as dim-witted as she seems is immaterial. The trick finally works. Near the end, something dawns on Hilary that is not a truism. As Victor's imminent death begins to seem real to her, she realizes that he "has made it seem that the future of a relationship is not as important as I once imagined." It would be nice to hear Victor on whether dying...