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In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy , a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight. The beautiful child of older parents, raised on the eastern end of Long Island, Theresa is... read more

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I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist.

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  1. Alice McDermott (Author)

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