Margreete’s Harbor by Eleanor Morse Advanced Edition ARC Book Paperback

Margreet’s Harbor by Eleanor Morse Advanced Readers Copy Edition Book Advanced Readers Copy (ARC); advanced edition pre-publication A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family & its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home. A fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, & nearly burns her place down. When Margreete calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband, & their children move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete's isolated home, & begin a new life. Margreete's Harbor tells the story of ten years in the history of a family: a novel of small moments, intimate betrayals, arrivals & disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the turbulent 1960s. Liddie, a professional cellist, struggles to find space for her music in a marriage that increasingly confines her; Harry's critical approach to the growing war in Vietnam endangers his new position as a high school history teacher; Bernie & Eva begin to find their own identities as young adults & Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them. Margreete’s Harbor by Eleanor Morse; historical fiction literary fiction family drama marriage coming of age contemporary book novel