The World Below.(Review)

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The World Below 
SUE MILLER 
Alfred A. Knopf 
272 pages

The World Below takes its title from something the narrator, Catherine, sees on a childhood fishing expedition with her grandfather: an entire Vermont town submerged after a dam was built. As a divorced adult, Catherine returns to the area and discovers her grandmother's diaries in the house she has inherited, and she comes to associate the mystery and tranquillity of the town in the lake with the lives of her grandparents. Miller evokes the couple's small-town idyll--"the lilac and fidelity" of their lives together--with ...

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