By Anita Shreve
INSTANT big apple occasions top SELLER
From the New York occasions best-selling writer of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's ebook membership selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel approximately a unprecedented younger lady proven by means of a catastrophic occasion and its devastating aftermath--based at the actual tale of the most important hearth in Maine's historical past
In October 1947, after a summer time lengthy drought, fires escape all alongside the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are quickly racing uncontrolled from city to village. 5 months pregnant, Grace Holland is left by myself to guard her little toddlers whilst her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. together with her ally, Rosie, and Rosie's kids, Grace watches helplessly as their homes burn to the floor, the flames eventually forcing all of them into the sea as a final hotel. the ladies spend the evening frantically holding their kids, and within the morning locate their lives eternally replaced: homeless, penniless, waiting for information in their husbands' destiny, and left to stand an doubtful destiny in a city that now not exists. in the course of this devastating loss, Grace discovers excellent new freedoms--joys and triumphs she may well by no means have anticipated her slim lifestyles with Gene may contain--and her spirit soars. after which the unthinkable happens--and Grace's bravery is confirmed as by no means prior to.
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