Up Island: A Novel
Price
$53.00
Format
Paperback
Pages
433
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publication Date
Reprint edition (May 19, 2009
Dimensions
5.31 x 0.72 x 8 inches
Weight
12.8 ounces
Description
Anne Rivers Siddons's bestselling novels include Nora, Nora ; Sweetwater Creek ; Islands ; and Fox's Earth . She is also the author of the nonfiction work John Chancellor Makes Me Cry . She and her husband divide their time between Charleston, South Carolina, and Brooklin, Maine.
Features & Highlights
- From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that "family is everything." But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat.
- With her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard, hoping to come to terms with who she truly is. When the summer season ends, Molly decides to stay on, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond—becoming part of an odd, new, very real family that taxes her old outworn notions. And as the long Vineyard winter approaches, Molly braces herself for the arduous task she must undertake: a search for renewal and identity, and the strength to carry her through to the warm and healing spring.
