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Pete and Alice in Maine: A Novel (edizione 2024)

di Caitlin Shetterly (Autore)

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Fiction. Literature. HTML: "Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family, in crisis�??set during the plague years when the entire world was in crisis. As she investigates the insidious effect of lies, betrayal, fear, and anger, not to mention the mundane joys and wrenching heartaches of everyday life, Caitlin Shetterly gets to the heart of what it means to be a family." �?? Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles A powerful and beautifully written debut novel that intimately explores a fractured marriage and the struggles of modern parenthood, set against the backdrop of the chaotic spring of 2020. Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family and flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary�??from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic and her faltering marriage. Putting distance between herself and the stresses and troubles of the city, Alice begins to feel safe and relieved. But the locals are far from friendly. Trapped and forced into quarantine by hostile neighbors, Alice sees the imprisoning structure of her life in this new predicament. Stripped down to the bare essentials of survival and tending to the needs of her two children, she can no longer ignore all the ways in which she feels limited and lost�??lost in the big city, lost as a wife, lost as a mother, lost as a daughter and lost as a person. As the world shifts around her and the balance in her marriage tilts, Alice and her husband, Pete, are left to consider if what keeps their family safe is the same thing as what keeps their family to… (altro)

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Titolo:	Pete and Alice in Maine: A Novel
Autori:	Caitlin Shetterly (Autore)
Info:	Harper Perennial (2024), 256 pages
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Shetterly's writing is so full of being right there with this family, in part simply because we all had to find our way to live through the pandemic.! You don't escape anything this family is experiencing. It is so well written and after reading the author's notes in the end about what her own family was going through as she wrote this, it comes through in her writing of this novel. I would guess that she found herself in many of the things Alice was saying. It's a book that's hard to put down until you have reached the end....with the questions that linger there. (

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nyiper | Dec 23, 2023 |

a/k/a "Pete and Alice Belong in Brooklyn". But in this, my first wholly covid-set novel, the main characters, a quarreling couple, flee with their two quarreling daughters to their ramshackle summer home in coastal Maine, where they are shunned as disease carriers. Alice had been a playwright until the premature birth of her younger daughter Iris, and Pete does something lucrative for a Wall St. firm. Before they leave the city, Alice discovers Pete's affair with "The Her". He's contrite, she's suspicious, but somehow the stress of the situation leads to fantastic sex, their sole remaining pleasure in each other. There's a lot about how they met, about Pete's horrible wealthy parents, and about the growing pains of both girls, and all of it makes for an enjoyable if insubstantial read, as the reader wonders if the marriage will stay intact, especially when Pete is called back into the office and into temptation. And in the "Guess Your Own Adventure" finish, you're left to figure out how it all ends.

Quote: "Iris wants her mother to have Iris's feelings and thoughts, and when she perceives her mother might be somewhere in her own locked room of thoughts and not paying close attention, Iris is uncomfortable. It's like a disappearance." (

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froxgirl | Dec 9, 2023 |

Loved this book, especially the beginning that reflected the terror we all felt during those times. How they were viewed as outsiders in Maine until they put old Maine license plates on their car; the problems in their marriage; the cat Ingmar; the beautiful descriptions of Maine and the ocean. Didn't want it to end, but the way it left us hanging was very interesting. (

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:

"Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family, in crisis�??set during the plague years when the entire world was in crisis. As she investigates the insidious effect of lies, betrayal, fear, and anger, not to mention the mundane joys and wrenching heartaches of everyday life, Caitlin Shetterly gets to the heart of what it means to be a family." �?? Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles

A powerful and beautifully written debut novel that intimately explores a fractured marriage and the struggles of modern parenthood, set against the backdrop of the chaotic spring of 2020.

Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family and flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary�??from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic and her faltering marriage.

Putting distance between herself and the stresses and troubles of the city, Alice begins to feel safe and relieved. But the locals are far from friendly. Trapped and forced into quarantine by hostile neighbors, Alice sees the imprisoning structure of her life in this new predicament. Stripped down to the bare essentials of survival and tending to the needs of her two children, she can no longer ignore all the ways in which she feels limited and lost�??lost in the big city, lost as a wife, lost as a mother, lost as a daughter and lost as a person.

As the world shifts around her and the balance in her marriage tilts, Alice and her husband, Pete, are left to consider if what keeps their family safe is the same thing as what keeps their family to

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