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Simon & Schuster
June 2011
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Featuring: Laura Martinez
304 pages
ISBN: 143918061X
EAN: 9781439180617
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Acclaimed novelist and nationally recognized family expert
Lynne Griffin returns with Sea Escape—an emotional,
beautifully imagined story inspired by the author’s family
letters about the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
Laura Martinez is wedged in the middle place, grappling with
her busy life as a nurse, wife, and devoted mom to her two
young children when her estranged mother, Helen, suffers a
devastating stroke. In a desperate attempt to lure her
mother into choosing life, Laura goes to Sea Escape, the
pristine beach home that Helen took refuge in after the
death of her beloved husband, Joseph. There, Laura hunts for
the legendary love letters her father wrote to her mother
when he served as a reporter for the Associated Press during
wartime Vietnam. Believing the beauty and sway of her
father’s words will have the power to heal, Laura reads the
letters bedside to her mother, a woman who once spoke the
language of fabric—of Peony Sky in Jade and Paradise Garden
Sage—but who can’t or won’t speak to her now. As Laura
delves deeper into her tangled family history, she becomes
increasingly determined to save her mother. As each letter
reveals a patchwork detail of her parents’ marriage, she
discovers a common thread: a secret that mother and daughter
unknowingly share. Weaving back and forth from Laura’s story
to her mother’s, beginning in the idyllic 1950s with Helen’s
love affair with Joseph through the tumultuous Vietnam War
period on to the present, Sea Escape takes a gratifying look
at what women face in their everyday lives—the balancing act
of raising capable and happy children and being accomplished
and steadfast wives while still being gracious and good
daughters. It is a story that opens the door to family
secrets so gripping, you won’t be able to put this book down
until each is revealed.
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