The Sensual Thread: A Novel

Rating:
Summary: A simple, boring little story
Review: The Sensual Thread is a first novel, as I understand it. Like many first novels, it probably does not live up to what will later be the author's potential.
The story, such as it is, revolves around a lesbian woman named Lee Brant. Her grandmother is in a nursing home, her grandfather having passed on, and Lee comes to live at their vacated farm in the mountains of Tennessee.
There she renews her friendship with her old childhood "sweetheart" Kay Holt. Nothing beyond one kiss ever happened between them in the past.
We discover Lee has an unusual gift--she is able to go inside others minds and see and feel through them. This "gift" only serves a useful purpose one time. The rest of the time it doesn't amount to anything.
The most outlandish of this going inside something mentally--is when she decides to "connect" with a tree. I don't know, but I don't think plants can be connected with mentally.
Most of the book is taken up with aimless horseback rides, and extremely banal conversations about everyday chores and tasks.
What Lee is doing for income while living on this little farm is never explained. Lee also has a stiff leg from an automobile accident that occurred some time in her recent past. Although this was apparently traumatic for her, it is never really examined in any way. And like most of the things in this book really doesn't come to anything.