Hard manual work which seems menial for Jay – a bright, thirty year-old man who has never realized his potential. Jay, on the other hand, is somewhat gainfully employed with an estate clearing business. Charlie is older than Jay, but Jay seems to be the more responsible sibling due to the fact that Charlie battles with drug addiction. He and his brother Charlie have struggled ever since. Jay’s childhood was cut short with the death of his parents in a car accident when he was eight. A town past its heyday, struggling to survive like many small towns everywhere. Prosperity in Ashton ended before our protagonist, Jay Porter, was born. When I chose the novel I assumed that the protagonist was ‘lamenting’ something and was surprised when I realized that I was only partly correct. Just like royal icing hiding cracks in a cake, the snow hides those flaws – until a murder precipitates events that make them all too obvious. What could be prettier? But Ashton has some serious flaws. “ Lamentation” is a snow covered mountain overlooking the Northern New Hampshire town of Ashton.
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