The Ice Storm

Rick Moody 1994

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
family literary fiction loss grief

Our Take

Two families in Connecticut in 1973, the ice coming down, and everything held in place by nothing. Moody writes suburban moral collapse with cold ferocity — the swinging, the drinking, the children wandering in the storm — and the tragedy that results is both accidental and utterly inevitable.

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