Ah, Wally Lamb, how you slay me. I absolutely adored She's Come Undone because Lamb is able to write in such a way that I just need to know what happens. Is this character going to get what she wants? Is this character going to get what he deserves, since he's such a jerk? But he also turns a reader's ideas about a character on their head. 
 We Are Water was a good read, I can't deny that, but it wasn't Wally Lamb's best work. The story centers around Annie Oh and her pending marriage to Viveca, wealthy art dealer. The novel jumps back and forth between Annie's point of view, her ex-husband, Orion's, and her three children's. What I think this novel is really about is the ways in which your past can affect your present, how love really works in a relationship and in a family, and just how effed up some people can become, and the need to fix those deep-set issues for a person's own health. 
 My biggest problem with this novel, after thinking about it, was that so much was going on--on one hand, we have Annie and her current relationship with Viveca, as well as her past relationship with Orion, her love for her children, and her scary, dark childhood. On the other hand, we have Orion and his struggles with his past, his relationship with Annie and his children, plus his problems with work. On yet another hand, we have each of their three children's past and present stories. And on another hand, there is the history of Three Rivers, Connecticut and an artist who died young. Plus, the great flood of Annie's childhood, etc. etc. etc. There is a LOT to handle and I think it was too much. I read this book quickly because no matter what, Wally Lamb can draw me into a story, but there were entirely TOO many stories in one novel for it to be executed perfectly.