The Summer Cottage

ISBN: 1617735493

Author: Kietzman, Susan

Condition: New

Beautifully written and closely observed, The Summer Cottage captures the deep and complicated love of family. Reading this lovely novel, I felt the embrace of summer on the shoreline.--Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling authorSpanning two summers decades apart, Susan Kietzmans poignant new novel explores the complexities of the people-and places-that shape our livesHelen Street spent every summer of her childhood at her familys cedar-shake cottage on Long Island Sound. The youngest of four, she shared her mother Claires athletic genes and relished the orchestrated games and competitions that filled those warm, endless days. Unlike her older siblings-fiery Charlotte, ambitious Thomas, middle-child Pammy-Helen rarely felt the pressure of her mothers high expectations.Thirty years later, with her brother and sisters scattered, Helen is the sole caregiver for Claire, now terminally ill. Knowing her death is imminent, Claire has put Helen in the awkward position of telling the others that she plans on leaving everything, including the cottage, to Helen when she dies-unless everyone comes to the shore for a long weekend over the Fourth of July. During this time together, Helen, Charlotte, Pammy, and Thomas will revisit their long-ago decisions and assumptions. And they will face new choices that could shatter their fragile kinship-or reveal a familys extraordinary power to remember, to forgive, and to growPraise for the novels of Susan KietzmanReaders will find themselves drawn into the tragedies and triumphs of this fictional family-distinct and yet utterly relatable.-Hartford Books Examiner on The Good LifeThis book gives a great view of a typical marriagethe storyline is realistic, and one all readers can relate to, married or not.--RT Book Reviews on A Changing Marriage