Island of first light
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Norman Gautreau.
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Community life -- Fiction.; Islands -- Fiction.; Maine -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.