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Hughes, Mary-Beth.
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Families -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
New Jersey -- Fiction.
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Hughes, Mary-Beth.
Families -- Fiction.
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
New Jersey -- Fiction.
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The ocean house : stories / Mary-Beth Hughes.
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Hughes, Mary-Beth.
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION
HUG
Subjects
Families --
Fiction
.
Intergenerational relations --
Fiction
.
Secrecy --
Fiction
.
New Jersey --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780802157539 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.
Description:
243 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The ocean house -- Outcast -- The healing zone -- Here you are -- The elixer -- Dove -- The pitch -- Summerspace -- Fragile X -- How the poets learned to love her -- California.
Summary:
"Faith, a mother of two young children, Cece and Connor, is in need of summer childcare. As a member of a staid old beach club in her town and a self-made business consultant, she is appalled when her brother-in-law sends her an unruly, ill-mannered teenager named Lee-Ann who appears more like a wayward child than competent help. What begins as a promising start to a redemptive relationship between the two ends in a tragedy that lands Faith in a treatment facility, leveled by trauma. Years later, Faith and her mother, Irene, visit Cece in college. A fresh-faced student with a shaved head and new boyfriend, Cece has become a force of her own. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Irene, is in the early stages of dementia. She slips in and out of clarity, telling lucid tales of her own troubled youth. Faith dismisses her mother's stories as bids for attention. The three generations of women hover between wishful innocence and a more knowing resilience against the cruelty that hidden secrets of the past propel into the present. Including stories from an array of characters orbiting Faith's family, The Ocean House weaves an exquisite world of complicated family tales on the Jersey Shore."--Provided by publisher.
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Short stories.
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