Shelter Me Paperback - 2008
by Juliette Fay
In the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother's year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness--and help that arrives from unexpected sources.
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Juliette Fay�s first novel is a beautiful story of love and loss. The characters are vibrant and the emotions completely believable. Expecting many tears, I was pleasantly surprised at the humor and strength. I highly recommend Shelter Me and anxiously await Fay�s next. This new author is already a pro.
BayShore
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In the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother's year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness...and help that arrives from unexpected sources
Four months after her husband's death, Janie LaMarche remains undone by grief and anger. Her mourning is disrupted, however, by the unexpected arrival of a builder with a contract to add a porch onto her house. Stunned, Janie realizes the porch was meant to be a surprise from her husband--now his last gift to her.
As she reluctantly allows construction to begin, Janie clings to the familiar outposts of her sorrow--mothering her two small children with fierce protectiveness, avoiding friends and family, and stewing in a rage she can't release. Yet Janie's self-imposed isolation is breached by a cast of unlikely interventionists: her chattering, ipecac-toting aunt; her bossy, over-manicured neighbor; her muffin-bearing cousin; and even Tug, the contractor with a private grief all his own.
As the porch takes shape, Janie discovers that the unknowable terrain of the future is best navigated with the help of others--even those we least expect to call on, much less learn to love.
Details
- Title Shelter Me
- Author Juliette Fay
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York
- Publication date 2008-12-30
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780061673399 / 0061673390
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Friendship
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008019208
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 10/06/2008, Page 34
- Romantic Times, 01/01/2009, Page 56
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