One family's secrets, betrayals, and hopes, woven together through
four generations into a brilliant tapestry of memory and love. .
Margaret Neal, a junior at Harvard, drops out after discovering she
is pregnant. At loose ends, and feeling like a disgrace to her
parents and to herself, she has to get away. For the money to buy a
ticket out of town, she appeals to her Aunt Nell, the family
matriarch, a no-nonsense ex-schoolteacher who seems to have nothing
in her life but her cat, her daily bran cereal and prunes, a big
old house full of stuff nobody wants, and relatives who covet her
money. But when Nell sends the check she also encloses a gift-an
odd but cherished souvenir that will lead to the revelation of a
series of truths about the family's long and haunted history. A
warm, humorous novel of unforgettable power and grace, Souvenir of
Cold Springs tumbles backwards in time, from 1987 to 1938, through
the voices of four generations of women in an extended family.
Peeling away the layers, bit by bit, these women tell interlocking
stories that uncover the painful events that arose from one
impulsive act buried deep in the past, and from the misconceptions,
rationalizations, and outright lies that followed. Through this
expansive exercise of memory, we come to see that this family, like
all families, is a rich accumulation, each generation echoing and
deepening the experiences of those who have come before them.
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