Burning Marguerite
By: Elizabeth Inness-Brown.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Women -- New England -- Fiction.; Boys -- Fiction.; New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.; New England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Waking to the chill of a snow-cloaked morning, carpenter James Jack Wright finds ninety-four-year-old Marguerite Deo lying dead in the woods outside his cabin. As he confronts the mystery of her death - why would Marguerite, his "Tante" since his infancy, walk out into the cold winter night? - an unexpected tale unfolds, moving from the present back to James Jack's childhood, to New Orleans during the Depression and World War II, and finally to a windswept New England island at the turn of the century.

At the heart of the story are a forbidden love, a violent crime kept secret for years, and above all, Marguerite's relationship with a little boy named James Jack, a bond that deepens after a terrible accident changes both their lives forever."--BOOK JACKET.