The Stars are Fire
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My review -
This
story is based in a true event which took place in Maine seventy years ago.
After an unusually hot and dry season, Grace’s home is destroyed in a wildfire
and she and her children narrowly escape with their lives. Her husband, Gene,
with whom she had a deteriorating relationship, is missing, presumed dead.
Grace takes a job at the local doctor’s and moves into the home of her late
mother-in-law. Her life settles down with her mother and a lodger – a brilliant
pianist. Things are not at all as settled as she hopes.
As
with a previous novel, Sea Glass, Anita Shreve uses the New England coast to
set her scenes and its wild storms for a backdrop to the personal tales of the
family. Grace feels like a captive. She’s tied to her children, tied to her
husband and very much a product of the age in which she was raised. Anita
Shreve’s style of cool and considered prose follows Grace’s self-discovery
without making it over-dramatic it. It’s a great display of inner strength and
I found it an encouraging story.
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