Island of First Light - Hardcover

Gautreau, Norman G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931561710 ISBN 13: 9781931561716

Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub, 2004

Synopsis

Island of the First Light takes place off the coast of Maine on remote Alabaster Island. Caitlin Gray has come to the island to escape her family, which is falling apart because of her husband's affair and a horrific car accident. She meets Freddy Orcutt, an old-time islander who embraces her as a daughter, and O'zalik Moseley, a Native American who is trying to preserve her island heritage while battling her own private disturbances. Caitlin helps O'zalik publish an account of a tragic event that happened to her people many years before and the islanders become incensed when they are forced to confront the atrocities of their own ancestors.

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From Booklist:

Gautreau returns to the coastal Maine backdrop of his first novel, Sea Room (2002), in a story focusing on a trio of island residents facing difficult life transitions. Reticent Freddy Orcutt, widower and retired fisherman, has made a momentous decision in agreeing to rent out the cottage that belonged to his dead son, Jimmy. In fact, he soon looks forward to the morning visits of his pretty new tenant, Caitlin Gray, who has left her husband and children in a desperate attempt to find some time and space just for herself and her writing. Meanwhile, Native American O'zalik Moseley, married to an abusive husband, is seeking to find evidence of ancestral remains on Snagged Anchor Island, which has made her extremely unpopular among the island residents because it means the land would revert to the Passamaquoddy tribe. At times, melodrama and political correctness threaten to sink the book altogether, but Gautreau pulls it out with his seemingly effortless evocation of the island setting and the touching emotional journey and authentic verbal tics of his down-easters. Joanne Wilkinson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931561710
• ISBN 13: 9781931561716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 289