Sears Point is a story about change. Set in the town of Brewster on Cape Cod, Washington Foster Sears lives through the transition of his small town from a rural and isolated community so typically described in the early twentieth century novels of Joseph C. Lincoln to the realities and challenges of today's world. Award winning author and former Cape Cod Times columnist Jim Coogan has created in the personality of "Washy" Sears an individual who lives his entire line in the town of his birth. More than just a history of a single town, Sears Point details the history of Cape Cod as it evolved in the twentieth century. The characters in Sears Point experience the First World War, the days of Prohibition, the Depression, World War II, and the mixed blessings that came with the post-war discovery of Cape Cod as a tourist and retirement destination. There is a universal theme that applies to all small towns that encounter social, cultural, and economic changes that are often beyond their control. Washy Sears' century of living on Cape Cod is filled with challenges as both his community and his own personal life must adapt to the inevitable conversions that time brings. How Washy and the Cape Cod town he loves cope with all of these challenges makes for a rich and engaging story line that will make readers nod their heads in recognition of what the passage of a single lifetime can do to a once familiar place.

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Jim Coogan is the author of eleven books about Cape Cod, including four for children. This is his first novel. A retired high school teacher, and a former columnist for the Cape Cod Times daily newspaper, Coogan is a graduate of Boston College with a degree in history. He taught that subject for almost thirty years at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School on Cape Cod. In 2004, his book Sail Away Ladies received the U.S. Maritime Literature Award for best work by an independent publisher. Sears Point was recently awarded Honorable Mention in the general fiction category by the 2016 New England Book Festival Awards. Jim Coogan lives in Sandwich, Massachusetts on Cape Cod.

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