Margreete's Harbor A novel

Eleanor Lincoln Morse

Book - 2021

"Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor begins with a fire: 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, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete's isolated home, and 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 and disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the tu...rbulent 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 and Eva begin to find their own identities as young adults; and Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them." -- Provided by publisher.

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Subjects
Genres
Domestic fiction
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press 2021.
Language
English
Main Author
Eleanor Lincoln Morse (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
374 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781250271549
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Review by Booklist Review

Morse's engrossing new novel charts the transitions of a family set against the shifting social landscapes of 1960s America. When Liddie's mother, Margreete, is no longer able to care for herself, Liddie has no choice but to uproot her family--husband Harry and young children Bernie and Eva--to live with Margreete in her small hometown on the coast of Maine. Liddie, a cellist, finds herself caught between her professional desires and caring for her family, a struggle further compounded by the arrival of their third child. Harry, a teacher, must reconcile his drive for social activism with more private passions. Twined with their journey is that of their children. Bernie, an outcast at school, comes into his own through his relationships and reckonings. Spirited yet cautious Eva focuses on her ambitions as she navigates a harrowing adolescence. Impenetrable Margreete, the family compass, recounts her past in fruitful moments of understanding. Morse weaves an entrancing tale that explores the intricacies of familial, social, and personal transformation and the lingering mystery of what may come.

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Review by Library Journal Review

Morse breaks out after White Dog Fell from the Sky and An Unexpected Forest, the winner of regional awards, with the story of thrice-widowed Margreete Bright, living alone near the Maine coast in the 1960s. When she nearly burns the house down, daughter Liddie and her family move from Michigan to be with her, forcing sometimes unsettling change on everyone involved. With a 60,000-copy first printing.

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