Cascade Audiobook

Quotes

• “Maryanne O’Hara invites the reader into the life of a young artist, Desdemona Hart, whose sacrifice for love spawns a cascade of secrets that threatens not only to undo her, but also a town, a way of life, and the heritage her beloved father has left them all. Rich with painterly image and flickering with desire, Cascade explores how passion—for life, for love, for art—can determine destiny.”

  — Robin Oliveira, New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter

• “Maryanne O’Hara weaves as intricate, as theatrical, and as tempestuous a plot as deftly as Prospero. Through the eyes of an artist yearning for a larger life-canvas but constrained by a humdrum marriage in a town careening toward destruction, we see the failing of men and women in their tangled relationships, each member of the cast struggling to find a fulfilling life. Save the town! Save the Shakespearean theater! Save our dreams, we cry out with the players.”

  — Susan Vreeland, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue

• “Gorgeously written and involving, Cascade explores the age-old conflict between a woman’s perceived duty and her deepest desires, but in O’Hara’s skilled hands the struggle feels fresh and new.”

  — People

• “Cascade unfolds like a Shakespearean tragedy, with an ending you won’t see coming…Much like a drowned town, the novel becomes something that you can’t take your eyes from or stop thinking about in wonder.”

  — Boston Globe

• “O’Hara deftly combines several different themes into a cohesive novel about love, ambition, loyalty, and betrayal, with an ironic twist at the end.”

  — Library Journal