Red ruby heart in a cold blue sea
By: Morgan Callan Rogers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780452298637
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Coming of age; Young women; Fiction; Bildungsromans; Missing persons
Description: "When her mother disappears during a weekend trip, Florine Gilham's idyllic childhood is turned upside down. Until then she'd been blissfully insulated by the rhythms of family life in small town Maine; watching from the granite cliffs above the sea for her father's lobster boat to come into port, making bread with her grandmother, and infiltrating the summer tourist camps with her friends. But with her mother gone, the heart falls out of Florine's life and she and her father are isolated as they struggle to manage their loss. Both sustained and challenged by the advice and expectations of her family and neighbors, Florine grows up with her spirit intact. And when her father's past comes to call, she must accept that life won't ever be the same while keeping her mother vivid in her memories. With Fannie Flagg's humor and Elizabeth Stroud's sense of place, this debut is an extraordinary snapshot of a bygone America through the eyes of an inspiring girl blazing her own path to womanhood."--Goodreads.com.
Notes: "A Plume Book."

"First published in the United States of America by Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012."--Title page verso.