Helpful Score: 3
An interesting though sad read--- a story of the assorted misfits and hermits living in the remains of a small Massachusetts village on Cape Ann near Gloucester only 50 miles from Boston in the early 1800's, diminished in reputation to the point of being called "Dogtown" after the pack of wild though not vicious dogs that call the area home. Deals with black-white relations, the whisper of "witchcraft", and ladies of the night as each character's story is revealed. This loosely bound collection of "witches", free Africans, sinners, orphans, and widows live out their mediocre lives in ramshackle houses amid hardscrabble gardens until slowly one by one they either die or move on to respectable paying jobs in Gloucester.
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