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Great story, helped me have a better understanding of that era. A little sad though.
This is an excellent CD, and I loved it to bits. I really enjoy Anita Shreve, and this is the best yet. Set in the Depression. Great historical fiction!
I enjoyed this book, despite its being written in present tense, which always irks me and is difficult to listen to. The beginning is stronger than the ending, but Shreve does a good job of weaving together plot and characters and illustrating what life was like at the turn of the century, when times were so much different than today.
This is a story about the depression-era. Set on the east coast in a mill town where tension is high about wages, especially with the stock market crash.
Sea Glass weaves an eclectic group of characters together - Honora and Sexton young ones; McDermott the guy ruffian with a good heart, Francis the tween who just wants to be out of his chaotic household and Vivian the bourgeois 28-year-old "spinster" thrown into the mix. Their lives are soon co-mingled in heartache and heartbreak.
But above all, there is sea glass.
Sea Glass weaves an eclectic group of characters together - Honora and Sexton young ones; McDermott the guy ruffian with a good heart, Francis the tween who just wants to be out of his chaotic household and Vivian the bourgeois 28-year-old "spinster" thrown into the mix. Their lives are soon co-mingled in heartache and heartbreak.
But above all, there is sea glass.
