num_pages: 400
description: Young anthropologist Joe Madden retreats to his family's summer home on Little Roanoke on North Carolina's Outer Banks to conduct an ethnographic study of the fishermen and their families, taking a job on a fishing boat as part of his study and embarking on a passionate love affair with a feminist doctor at odds with the locals on their views on motherhood and abortion. Reprint.
language: English
title: Gravesend Light
titlecomplete: Gravesend Light
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 186
publisher: Plume