La Maison De Salt Hay Road (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
If you don't enjoy character-driven novels, skip this one--but if you do, you are in for a treat. Clayton Poole is 11, orphaned, living in a little Long Island town with his sister Nancy and their aunt and uncle and grandfather. He loves the marshes, the water, all the wilderness to explore, but attractive Nancy longs for something more, and the day she meets ornithologist Robert her fate changes. Their aunt Mavis, disappointed in love and an anxious insomniac baker, is cook at the big lodge, while her bachelor brother Roy is taciturn, capable but destined to grow old stuck in a rut. The author delves deeply into the many complexities of love, marriage, loss, and home, just before the second world war, in this lovely, spare, yet rich, book. One of the best adult novels I've read in ages. Carin Clevidence’s first novel, The House on Salt Hay Road, is simply remarkable, combing well drawn, unforgettable characters with beautifully written prose. The reader is transported to the Great South Bay of Long Island, and thrust into the remnants of the Poole family, and the events surrounding the hurricane of 1938. The novel is not just an ode to a time and place, but also an examination of family; what it means to be an individual member yet part of the whole, as well as the resiliency of the ties that bind families. The House on Salt Hay Road is an unforgettable story and Carin Clevidence is an author to watch.
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