Susan Froetschel, Interruptions

Susan Froetschel, Interruptions really captures the anxiety of families who are labeled with attention deficit hyperactive disorder. The book has action and suspense. The book is set in Alaska but these conflicts happen all over the United States.

Susan Froetschel, Interruptions - The book describes a family with ADD with realism and humor.

The plot is intricate. The main character, Marcy, opposes a highway in Alaska wilderness, and receives a threat to leave her small town.

She returns undercover and figures out the many secrets to this unnecessary road. At the same time, she sees divisions in the small town, realizing how her own fishing family is viewed by others.

Interruptions

Susan Froetschel

Five Star, Nov 2004, $25.95, 328 pp.

ISBN: 1594141916

Marcy and Davy James, along with their intelligent twelve-year-old son, Gavan, enjoy living in Sitka. However, the James family are upset over a proposal to build a road across the island, in their opinion, destroying much of the beauty of the Tongass National Forest. Others like Jeremy Bander, the father of Gavan's best friend Tim, believe that progress means money to be made by everyone, but especially him.

Gavan and Tim follow engineering consultant Dennis Kovach into the forest. While Dennis catches and lectures Gavan, Tim steals his back pack. When Marcy learns that Gavan stole the backpack, she makes Gavan return it. Dennis decides to learn what Gavan knows by taking him into the forest with Marcy's permission. Tim secretly follows, but someone serendipitously trailed the threesome and kills Tim. As Marcy is threatened and the police investigate the homicide, Gavan feels guilty and tries to uncover the identity of the murderer.

This is an intriguing, amateur sleuth environmental vs. development tale that grips readers when the first confrontation on the road occurs at a town hall meeting. The storyline focuses on the questionable goings on more than just the question of economic growth at what cost, but does not neglect that issue through the divided cast. Obviously, since Marcy and Gavan are opposed to the construction, that side receives the stronger supporting argument. Readers who appreciate a fine who-done-it within the context of a major society issue will want to read INTERRUPTIONS, a solid environmental mystery.

Harriet Klausner