![]() ![]() The official story calls his fall an accident, and Josephus is now a ghost who haunts the Oh property.ĭr. After he paints a portrait of a white girl in his version of Adam and Eve, Josephus is pushed down a well. ![]() The novel begins with the story of Josephus Jones, an African American "outsider artist" living in the 1960s. The Oh family’s three adult children-unattractive, do-gooder Ariane her rebellious twin brother, Andrew and Marissa, an aspiring actress with a drinking problem-also take turns telling the story. After 27 years of marriage to her husband, Orion, a recently fired college psychologist, Annie has fallen in love with Viveca, her Manhattanite art dealer. The center of everything is Annie Oh-wife, mother, and experimental artist. The story of We Are Water is told in a first person narrative that alternates between the various characters. ![]() His works, such as She’s Come Undone, have also won several awards, including the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. Lamb is the author of several novels and essay collections, and his books have twice been selected for Oprah's Book Club. Set in Connecticut during the early years of the Obama presidency, the story follows the Oh family after wife and mother Annie announces that she is divorcing her husband of 27 years to wed another woman. Published in 2013, We Are Water is a literary fiction novel by Wally Lamb. ![]()
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