Mark H. (recyclist1954) - , reviewed on 2/23/2011 + 33 more book reviews

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With each chapter, Beth Gutcheon takes us back in time, first to the earlier life of the narrator, a young woman, Hannah Gray, transplanted from her home in Boston to a former schoolhouse in the Maine coast town of Dundee with her stepmother and her brother. Then she takes us back further in time to another young woman, Claris (Osgood) Haskell, who grew up in Dundee and was part of a fateful moment in the history of the area. Time brings the two women together, in a fashion, as each makes a fateful decision about love and life that costs them both dearly. Each suffers, in their way, at the hands of families that do not understand them. And each escapes, in their way, only to find those choices and decisions costly and painful. This is a story of love, won and lost, and family, and the prices we pay for the choice we make. And how sometimes, a part of us goes on, even after the end.

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