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PublisherShe Writes Press

ISBN-101938314565

ISBN-139781938314568

eBay Product ID (ePID)177344633

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Book TitleBittersweet Manor : a Novel

Number of Pages358 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSagas, Family Life, Coming of Age

Publication Year2014

GenreFiction

AuthorTory Tory Mccagg

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2013-951192

Dewey Edition23

Reviews" Bittersweet Manor is the perfect title for this book-a knowing multi-generational (not quite saga so much as) situation: a condition of privilege dealt with in differing ways by members of a family whose intimate wrangles are brilliantly limned. McCagg has an excellent ear, a noticing eye, and a deep familiarity with the world she here portrays. Read on!" -Nicholas Delbanco, author of The Art of Youth, and Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English, The University of Michigan "The walls of the Michaels' family home have been privy to the lives and loves of three generations. And oh, if those walls could talk! As a granddaughter contemplates the fate of the house-to sell or not to sell-she receives guidance from her strong-willed grandmother, the family matriarch. Class privilege, inheritance, ambition, and personal responsibility-these are just some of the issues tackled in Bittersweet Manor . A multi-generational gem." -Tina Egnoski, author of In the Time of the Feast of Flowers , " Bittersweet Manor is the perfect title for this book--a knowing multi-generational (not quite saga so much as) situation: a condition of privilege dealt with in differing ways by members of a family whose intimate wrangles are brilliantly limned. McCagg has an excellent ear, a noticing eye, and a deep familiarity with the world she here portrays. Read on!" --Nicholas Delbanco, author of The Art of Youth , and Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English, The University of Michigan

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisAfter a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she's going to sell the family property--her inheritance. Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck Village, Connecticut, looking across the harbor to their family's longtime home, the two women debate over Emma's choice--and their conversation lays the framework for the book, which flows over the decades, all the way back to Gussie's youth and marriage, then forward through the lives of her three children, Auggie, Livy, and Alyssa, whose hopes and talents are warped by their mother's influence and disappointed expectations. Expectations passed down through the generations. Subtle. Unspoken. Implacable. As Emma and Gussie remember the choices and dynamics that have produced the complicated tapestry that is their family's history, Emma makes a number of surprising discoveries about her loved ones--and herself--and she prepares to do what no one else in her family has dared: let go of the past to make room for the future, though doing so will destroy the thing her grandmother holds most dear.

LC Classification NumberPS3613.C3437B58 2014