As three generations of Kelleher women descend on their family's Maine beach property one summer, each brings her own hopes and fears. By turns wickedly funny and achingly sad, this novel unveils sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family.
Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction.
Buford had sent wordof all this tohis superior, General Alfred Pleasonton, the cavalry chief. Pleasonton, andGeneral Dan Butterfield, now army chief of staff, had apparently given Meade the impression that other cavalrywas immediately ...
From the Penobscots, Passaquamoddies, Puritans, and pilgrims, to the proud people "Down East," L is for Lobster is the alphabet book for all Mainers.
This book divides Maine's landscape into smaller pieces - 'natural communities' and 'ecosystems' - and assigns names to those pieces based on where they fit in the landscape and on their attendant trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and wildlife ...