Laura Tobin Martinez is a hardworking wife and mother of
two, who suddenly finds herself being stretched even
further when her aloof and demanding mother Helen has a
debilitating stroke, and will require extensive
rehabilitation. Laura and her mother have always had an
awkward and strained relationship, and Laura never
understood why she could not seem to please her mother no
matter how hard she tried. Despite this Laura is committed
to stepping up to the plate to do her best for her mother.
She puts her own life on hold, thanks to help of her
generous and loving husband and his sister, and in the
process of caring for her mom, Laura finds answers to a
myriad of family secrets that has haunted her family for
decades.
Laura's father Joseph was the love of her mother's life,
and when he was killed in 1975 while working for the
Associated Press during the Vietnam Era, the event altered
the Tobin family dramatically. After Joseph's death Helen
found solace at Sea Escape, a beautiful beach home the
couple built, and Helen painstakingly decorated to
perfection. It is here at Sea Escape, that Laura discovers
old letters written by her parents, dating back as far as
1951. It is through these old letters that Laura discovers
shocking things about her parents that she is learning for
the first time, and the answers to so many questions that
she and her brother Holden had had all their lives.
In Lynne Griffin's powerful novel, SEA ESCAPE, the strong
dynamics of mother/daughter relationships is put under a
fine magnification in a story that is heart wrenching but
authentic in its realities of the situations many families
find themselves in. In this tale, Griffin offers her
readers a glimpse into the lives of these two strong women
as she delves into the reasons that mother Helen was like
she was, and why she rarely showed her feelings and how
this affected her daughter and son. The story alternates
between the past and present, Laura's family life and
Helen's stroke and recovery, and is a genuine tale that
many will find leaves a last impact.
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