false 104218 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 104218 14 260422 1997 Up Island total:760|5:138|4:293|3:267|2:55|1:7| 760 2780 949 46 6946 3.62 9772 965 8630303 564223 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 719 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 3 1 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Nov 03 19:54:03 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 19:54:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 17042059 888138 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 3 1 false Tue Mar 04 20:03:34 -0800 2008 Fri May 30 09:32:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 74788002 2073876 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 2 0 false Fri Oct 16 20:33:38 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 20:37:05 -0700 2009
Also, I thought the dream sequences with her dead mother w...more...]]> 68685130 527235 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 2 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 09:01:16 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 09:08:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 828887 46485 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 2 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 22 07:00:39 -0700 2007 Sun May 20 14:10:17 -0700 2007
I do have a process (shocking, I'm sure). It's not totally random. I look for au...more...]]> 60229700 1675642 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 0 0 false Wed Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 18 17:07:54 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 17:13:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 50001785 2093830 375366 0060176156 9780060176150 2 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174272152m/375366.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174272152s/375366.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/375366.Up_Island 3.36 14 1997 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 21 18:41:07 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 18:41:07 -0700 2009 2 Another Siddons' that helps us...more...]]> 41326522 1807900 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 4 0 false Sat Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 30 14:37:13 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 14:38:24 -0800 2008 70973843 2731051 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 4 0 false Sat Sep 12 12:57:58 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 12:58:02 -0700 2009 66798720 2241327 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 3 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 19:29:44 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 19:31:36 -0700 2009 38405667 800982 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 3 0 false Sat Nov 22 15:50:41 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 15:51:24 -0800 2008 53745723 1666552 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 2 0 false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 13:34:56 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 10:04:28 -0700 2009 63263646 1426009 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 0 0 false Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 07:08:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 06:25:36 -0700 2009 67947367 1924314 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 3 0 false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:40:05 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:41:23 -0700 2009 67178031 2554681 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 4 0 false Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 1998 Wed Aug 12 20:37:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 20:38:36 -0700 2009 42776380 1878063 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 3 0 false Mon Jan 12 07:18:35 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 07:18:35 -0800 2009 51007825 2066268 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 4 0 false Tue Mar 31 01:56:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 00:22:53 -0700 2009 48335933 2098950 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 0 0 false Thu Mar 05 12:17:25 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 12:17:32 -0800 2009 74317628 2438249 6498272 0061715719 9780061715716 1 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6498272-up-island 3.57 14 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.

]]> 1997 4 0 false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 15:49:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 15:50:30 -0700 2009 62437745 1095922 104218 006109921X 9780061099212 42 <![CDATA[Up Island]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778m/104218.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171509778s/104218.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104218.Up_Island 3.66 760 Up Island chronicles the mass redemption of a unlikely group, thrown together by the vicissitudes of love and fate: "a six foot Southern Betrayed Wife and her widowed father and a senile old Portuguese lesbian and a one-legged schoolteacher and a mongrel dog and two aberrant swans..." As the novel begins, newly divorced Molly Redwine is in the market for some redemption. Battered and numb from loss, she comes to Martha's Vineyard to escape and heal if she can. For the next 300 pages, the story shuttles between Molly's heart, packed with pain, regret, and guilt, and the sea-licked open spaces of the island. By book's end, both places are terra cognita. There are family secrets, haunted dreams, and enough death to do Shakespeare proud--balanced delicately with small pleasures, kindness, and unbreakable bonds. Up Island is a fractal of a book: complicated but ultimately satisfying as only the completion of a pattern can be. Intelligent and insightful, it is good story tenderly told.]]> 1997 5 0 false Mon Jul 06 22:30:52 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 22:31:03 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=104218