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Harper
August 2010
On Sale: August 3, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0061963070
EAN: 9780061963070
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One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip
to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself
in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built
on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the
open water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt
house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the
unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house's owner,
Dennis DuVal—and a new future reveals itself. Turning away from her quiet, predictable life back home,
Frances moves to Miami to be with Dennis. Over time, she
earns the confidence of his wild-at-heart sister and wins
the approval of his oldest friend. Frances and Dennis marry
and have a child—but rather than growing complacent about
their good fortune, they continue to face the challenges of
intimacy and the complicated city they call home. Stiltsville is the family's island oasis—until suddenly it's
gone, and Frances is forced to figure out how to make her
family work on dry land. Against a backdrop of lush tropical
beauty, Frances and Dennis struggle with the mutability of
love and Florida's weather, as well as temptation, chaos,
and disappointment. But just when Frances thinks she's
reached some semblance of higher ground, she must confront
an obstacle so great that even the lessons she's learned
about navigating the uncharted waters of family life can't
keep them afloat. With Stiltsville, Susanna Daniel weaves the beauty,
violence, and humanity of Miami's coming-of-age with an
enduring story of a marriage's beginning, maturity, and
heartbreaking demise.
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