Against the Undertow

Marilyn Medén has spent many summers on the shore of Lake Huron. She now lives in Port Moody, B.C.In Against The Undertow Evelyn Spence, at eighty-five, a woman used to making her own decisions, and now threatened with dementia, decides to use suicide to control of the end of her life. She is forced to confront the deep disquiet of a wrong she has done to a daughter, the betrayal of trust from a favoured grandson, as well as her own fear and denial. Television exposure, which she...
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Marilyn Medén has spent many summers on the shore of Lake Huron. She now lives in Port Moody, B.C.In Against The Undertow Evelyn Spence, at eighty-five, a woman used to making her own decisions, and now threatened with dementia, decides to use suicide to control of the end of her life. She is forced to confront the deep disquiet of a wrong she has done to a daughter, the betrayal of trust from a favoured grandson, as well as her own fear and denial. Television exposure, which she envisions as a chance to immortalize herself, turns into a trial in which she is forced into honesty and atonement.Told with sensitivity and precise language, the novel illuminates the lives of three generations.