Title: A hole in the heart
Description: Accepting a last-minute teaching position in a small Alaska fishing town, Bean finds herself unexpectedly falling in love and marrying, only to become widowed and paired up with an aging, kleptomaniac mother-in-law.
Subjects: Women teachers, Married people, Mountaineers, Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Fishing villages, Missing persons, Widows, Mothers-in-law, Fiction, psychological, Missing persons, fiction, Married people, fiction, Widows, fiction, Alaska, fiction, Teachers, fiction, New York Times reviewed
Places: Alaska