Reviews for Going under

The average rating for Going under based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-01 00:00:00 Timothy Heidt I found Going Under to be very compelling storytelling. But what was particularly unforgettable and masterful was its understated directness. Yes, we are watching and are brought into the tragedy that Jeff and Meena are experiencing in watching their mother's increasing fragility, but we are also brought into the kind of very aware detachment that makes the children's survival possible. Mr. Luvaas captures this perfectly without either keeping us from caring or letting the reader drown in overwhelming emotion. There is loss, displacement, bewilderment, irony and instinct so keenly and beautifully rendered.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-17 00:00:00 Ty Turner It's not often an image from a book stays with me years after I've read the final pages and closed the cover, but William Luvaas created such an image in "Going Under," a powerful and disturbing novel of a family nearly collapsed by alcoholism, mental instability and betrayal. It takes a writer of great skill and great compassion to create a story of such emotional wreckage that still, in the end, leaves the reader with belief in the goodness of the human heart.