Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine Saturday, August 1 2009.

• This novel begins in 1969, and as Peter, Paul and Mary croon on the radio and poster paints are splashing the latest anti-war slogans. Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach house awaiting the birth of a love child she will name Sparrow. Claudia, who weds a farmer during college, plans to raise three strong sons. And Elizabeth and Howard marry, organize protest marches, and try to raise their two children with their own earthy, hippie values. By 1985, things have changed. Suzanne, now with a M.B.A., has taken to calling Sparrow "Susan." After personal tragedy, Claudia spirals backward into her sixties world—and into madness. And Elizabeth, fatally ill, watches despairingly as her children yearn for a split-level house and a gleaming station wagon. In this beloved, critically acclaimed first novel, Hood's clear, brave, and penetrating voice captures the spirit of three friends struggling to resolve their lives in a complicated time warp called lost youth.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine Tuesday, July 28 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ann Hood: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine Thursday, July 16 2009.

• To Sparrow, her father was a man standing in front of a Day-Glo green VW van in a picture dated June 1969.