As in Chekhov's play "The Three Sisters," the characters in Mildred
Walker's "Orange Tree" search for meaning and happiness in their
often uneventful middle-class lives--and yet from such a seemingly
ordinary premise, subtle and defining drama ensues. Editing
Walker's last novel, which the author reworked for nearly two
decades, Carmen Pearson has found indications that the Chekhov play
had in fact been a template that Walker contemporized in "The
Orange Tree,"
The novel centers on two families living in Boston in the 1970s: an
older couple, Tiresa and Paulo Romano, and the newlyweds Olive and
Ron Fifer. The fragile state of the older woman's health and the
younger woman's marriage brings these two couples together in their
separate and quietly desperate isolation, producing a combination
of insight and compassion that only the finest story can evoke. In
"The Orange Tree," Walker explores the relationships between men
and women and offers an absorbing commentary on literature,
writing, education, middle-class life, and the nature of friendship
and of death.
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