"Smoke at the horizon."
-- Good for the Jews by Debra Spark
Does an incomplete sentence count as an opening sentence? Oh well. It gets much better very fast. I was immediately plunged into the connected lives of two families in the high school academic circle of Madison, Wisconsin.
Intriguing! :-)
ReplyDeleteOkay, now I'm dying to know how the title meshes into the plot as you've described it. Do tell!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I signed up for a LOTR read-along, January through April 2010. Interested? It's at http://shelflove.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/lord-of-the-rings-readalong/#comment-3767.