This New York Times bestseller of a troubled family in 1960s Vermont is "teeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive" ( The New Yorker ).
Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice, is becoming emotionally involved with a local priest in a staunchly Catholic town that disappr.
With no help from her alcoholic ex-husband, Marie Fermoyle is raising three children on the edge of poverty.
It is the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont.
This New York Times bestseller of a troubled family in 1960s Vermont is "teeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive" ( The New Yorker )