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Pete and Alice in Maine: A Novel
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Gripping.Richard Russo, author of Empire FallsShetterlys debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film.Allegra Goodman, New York Times Book ReviewPete and Alice in Maine is a tender, bighearted, cleareyed portrait of a marriage, and a family, in crisisset 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 ExilesA 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 sanctuaryfrom 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 lifein 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 lostlost 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 together.
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