What happens to parents when a teenager runs away from home? "The Ice Carriers revolves around the charged relationships between husband and wife, parent and child. Nico and Louise both have successful careers: Nico is a director of a psychiatric hospital, and Louise a teacher of classical languages, but their successes in life become meaningless when their only daughter runs away from home. Outwardly they continue as ever, but internally they are falling apart. Grasping for control, they throw themselves into separate ...
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What happens to parents when a teenager runs away from home? "The Ice Carriers revolves around the charged relationships between husband and wife, parent and child. Nico and Louise both have successful careers: Nico is a director of a psychiatric hospital, and Louise a teacher of classical languages, but their successes in life become meaningless when their only daughter runs away from home. Outwardly they continue as ever, but internally they are falling apart. Grasping for control, they throw themselves into separate projects; Nico plans far-reaching changes in the hospital, Louise designs a beautiful garden. Nico runs into serious objections to his plans and begins alienating his staff. Hostile conditions frustrate all of Louise's efforts; plants and vegetables failing to obtain a hold in the sandy soil. As the tension mounts, it becomes clear that only tragedy can result from the couple's refusal to face reality. The powerful emotions of loss and frustration are expressed with poignancy in this vivid novel.
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