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Reviewed by Jean Hall for Readers' Favorite
There are no cliches in this story about Ethan and Carrie. Jana Krause writes "The Orbiter" with no ordinary boundaries or expected plot conflicts. There is also a cosmic darkness to this unconventional tale. The story begins in the womb and it ends at the seashore. Ethan's life is ruled by headaches, stuttering and the mysterious "Pull" of remembering. The mystery is not just about remembering but about where and how he feels safe. Somehow Ethan remembers everything and he suffers his own kind of torment. He lives in the solitude and seeming safety of his own thoughts. One night, he finds an auburn-haired girl lost in a cave. He stays with her until the sun comes up and she can find her way home. In later years he sees her from a distance and he somehow dares to be close to her. At first Carrie is not aware of the gravitational pull that Ethan experiences. In a fateful moment, he saves her life just as the ocean would sweep her away.
The ocean and the beach become the most important part of this book's setting. It is where the couple's life becomes joined and then where it may be ripped apart. Ethan is on the beach pining for Carrie; "He let the screeching seagulls distract his anguished thoughts as they floated on the wind above him." The interior life of Ethan's mind cannot protect him or trap him forever, though. He experiences a radical and profound change. His dreamlike journey seems destined to continue over the roar of the surf and the sound of his own thoughts.
