Mattagash, Maine, is at the end of the road, a quaint
little backwoods town with some eccentric, quirky people. A
one-way bridge divides the town. For Orville Craft it is
the mailboxes up from the bridge and the mailboxes down
from the bridge. Orville is making his last week's run
delivering the mail. He's been doing it for 13 years but is
having second thoughts about his retirement. Harry Plunkett
is Orville's nemesis. He's been teasing and tormenting
Orville for over 40 years. His latest escapade is a moose
mailbox he put up three years ago. Only now, Harry has
turned it around backwards, so when Orville arrives with
Harry's mail, he has to put it in the back-end of the
moose. Only five more days!
Billy Thunder is new in town, telling people he has come in
search of his ancestors. His mother was a Fennelson and was
raised in Mattagash. Everyone knows about the Fennelson
Curse, but no one knows Billy's real reason for being here.
Edna Plunkett is in a funk. She thinks she wants a divorce
from her husband, wants to run off with a man she only
briefly met this past summer and wants to take up a career
as an artist.
Each of these four characters examines their life,
reflecting on its current status and the direction its
heading. Their private surveys of their feelings lead them
to make some profound decisions. There are a host of
supporting characters that lend their voices to help
Orville, Harry, Billy and Edna find their way. Cathie
Pelletier has written a wonderful satire about this
small fictional town and it's ONE-WAY BRIDGE that joins the
town together in support of each other. She incorporates
Harry's thoughts as he flashes back to his days in Vietnam
and explores the trauma and distress these men live with
every day. You will not be disappointed with this engaging
story. Put ONE-WAY BRIDGE on your list!
Welcome to Mattagash, the last town in the middle of the
northern Maine wilderness. The road dead–ends here,
but Mattagash's citizens are fiercely proud.
Yet this simple town connected by a single one–way
bridge is anything but tranquil. While neighbors bicker
publicly over trivialities such as offensive mailbox
designs and gossip about suspicious newcomers, they
privately struggle to navigate deeper
issues—scandals, loss, failed ambitions, the scars
of war...and a mysterious dead body in the woods.
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