Fortunes Neck is a blue-collar place of deep history and buried memory. It's a place where secrets fetch up out of the earth like old bones. Sometimes they are old bones.
Lives in Fortunes Neck are anchored in its history, which reaches back to the earliest days of settlement and slaveholding in New England. The novel's heart is with the 20th Century Weir and Collins families.
Doc Weir and his wife Jeannine might be considered the town's first family. Doc Weir was the town's principal physician; he was also locally notorious for the circumstances of his sister's death. Their joy in life was their daughter Amy, a pretty girl who wanted a history of her own. When Amy fell for a local plumber, Johnny Collins, the Weirs objected. Amy defied them.
Their marriage appeared to be a happy one. Amy and Johnny produced a daughter, the well-loved Juny. Then on a perfect spring day Amy walked out of all their lives, leaving just a note saying, "Gone for mushrooms."
From that day forward the novel's focus is on Juny's efforts to make sense of the world from which her mother has vanished--the frightening resolution of which will propel the rest of her life.
Fortunes Neck is a mystery of layers--the mystery of a disappearing mother. The mystery of what it means to make a family. And the mystery of the long, secret reach of history.
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