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After a four-month estrangement from her family,
thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted
Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a
decision: she's going to sell the family property--her inheritance.
Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck Village, Connecticut, looking
across the harbor to their family's longtime home, the two women
debate over Emma's choice--and their conversation lays the
framework for the book, which flows over the decades, all the way
back to Gussie's youth and marriage, then forward through the lives
of her three children, Auggie, Livy, and Alyssa, whose hopes and
talents are warped by their mother's influence and disappointed
expectations. Expectations passed down through the generations.
Subtle. Unspoken. Implacable.
As Emma and Gussie remember the choices and dynamics that have
produced the complicated tapestry that is their family's history,
Emma makes a number of surprising discoveries about her loved
ones--and herself--and she prepares to do what no one else in her
family has dared: let go of the past to make room for the future,
though doing so will destroy the thing her grandmother holds most
dear.
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