Island Light

Island Light
ISBN-10
098560736X
ISBN-13
9780985607364
Category
Aunts
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2012-09
Publisher
Riverrun Select
Author
Katherine Towler

Description

A Vietnam veteran in his early 40s, a lesbian in her 70s, and a photographer find their lives unexpectedly linked after a fire sweeps through an old mansion. Set in the fall of 1990, as the United States prepares to go to war in the Persian Gulf, the final volume of the Snow Island trilogy brings together characters from the previous volumes with new arrivals in a moving conclusion.

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