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Knopf
June 2011
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Featuring: Maggie Kelleher; Ann Marie; Kathleen
352 pages
ISBN: 0307595129
EAN: 9780307595126
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Contemporary
In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney
Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory
landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly
anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer
territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have
nothing in common but the fact that, like it or not, they’re
family. For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where
children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old
Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront
property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three
acres of sand and pine nestled between stretches of rocky
coast, with one tree bearing the initials “A.H.” At the
cottage, built by Kelleher hands, cocktail hour follows
morning mass, nosy grandchildren snoop in drawers, and
decades-old grudges simmer beneath the surface. As
three generations of Kelleher women descend on the property
one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is
thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to
tell her imperfect boyfriend the news; Ann Marie, a Kelleher
by marriage, is channeling her domestic frustration into a
dollhouse obsession and an ill-advised crush; Kathleen, the
black sheep, never wanted to set foot in the cottage again;
and Alice, the matriarch at the center of it all, would
trade every floorboard for a chance to undo the events of
one night, long ago. By turns wickedly funny and
achingly sad, Maine unveils the sibling rivalry,
alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the
center of one family, along with the abiding, often
irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer,
to Maine and to each other.
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