BookBrowse Reviews The Most by Jessica Anthony

In November 1957, Kathleen and Virgil Beckett are living at Acropolis Place, an apartment complex in Newark, Delaware, an arrangement that was supposed to be temporary after their move from Rhode Island but has been drawn out by inertia. It's an unseasonably warm day and the Russians are launching their satellite Sputnik 2 with its canine captive Laika aboard. Virgil readies the Becketts' two children, Nathaniel and Nicholas, for church, while Kathleen, opting to stay home, gets into the complex's swimming pool.

The day unfolds in leisurely but taut fashion. Virgil returns from church and Kathleen refuses to get out of the pool. He goes golfing with colleagues and returns again, and Kathleen still will not get out of the pool. People are staring from their balconies and apartments. What is wrong with this strange woman who will not answer her husband's pleas to emerge from the ...