Eleanor Morse

A good book that tells the story of a family dealing with melancholy. Goodreads: A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home.Margreete?s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down.When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete?s isolated home, and begin a new life.Margreete?s Harbor tells the story of ten years in the history of a family: a novel of small moments, intimate betrayals, arrivals and disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the turbulent 1960s. Liddie, a professional cellist, struggles to find space for her music in a marriage that increasingly confines her; Harry?s critical approach to the growing war in Vietnam endangers his new position as a high school history teacher; Bernie and Eva begin to find their own identities as young adults; and Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them.… (altro)

Margreete’s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down.

When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete’s isolated home, and begin a new life.

Margreete’s Harbor tells the story of ten years in the history of a family: a novel of small moments, intimate betrayals, arrivals and disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the turbulent 1960s.

Liddie, a professional cellist, struggles to find space for her music in a marriage that increasingly confines her

Harry’s critical approach to the growing war in Vietnam endangers his new position as a high school history teacher

Bernie and Eva begin to find their own identities as young adults

Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them.

Thank you, Goodreads and St. Martin's Pres for a chance to read Margreete’s Harbor!!

This was truly a heartbreaking and absolutely lovely story. Eleanor Morse does a wonderful job showing us the family values the trials and dedication that a family should have. This book touches on a little bit everything. Even though it is based on the 1960s it shows what families are going through today war, sexuality, trust and sacrifice. This really was a lovely book. Beautifully written. You can tell that the author truly cared about her characters. This book just draws you in, grabs you and holds you till the very end. Happy reading everyone!

You look like an angel

Walk like an angel

Talk like an angel

But I got wise

You’re the devil in disguise.… (altro)