Title: Compass Rose
Description: Some reviewers have called COMPASS ROSE  a sequel to SPARTINA. In a way it is, but it stands on its own--it can be read as a self-contained novel.  There are some of the same characters as in SPARTINA, but COMPASS ROSE  is from the point of view of three forceful women, each with her own voice.
Subjects: South County Rhode Island, Fishers, Fiction
Places: Coast of Rhode Island
People: May, Dick Pierce's wife; Elsie, mother of Dick's child; Mary Scanlon, friend to both May an Elsie.
Time periods: Late 20th century, tho' South County is in some ways timeless.