num_pages: 224
description: "Brilliant....[The Vietnam era] is vividly captured by Ann Hood."— New York Times Book Review In 1969, as Peter, Paul and Mary croon on the radio and poster paints are splashing the latest antiwar slogans, three friends find love. Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach house awaiting the birth of a child she will call Sparrow. Claudia, who weds a farmer during college, plans to raise three strong sons. Elizabeth and her husband marry, organize protests, and try to rear two children with their hippy values. By 1985, things have Suzanne, now with an MBA, calls Sparrow "Susan." 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. Reading group guide included. .
language: English
title: Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine (Bantam New Fiction
titlecomplete: Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine (Bantam New Fiction (Paperback))
genres: Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Womens Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1388
places: Maine
publisher: Bantam