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Maine
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Maine is told from four different points of views. Family matriarch Alice Kelleher, her daughter Kathleen, her daughter-in-law Ann Marie, and granddaughter Maggie. Although Alice does have another daughter Clare and a son Patrick. Their voices aren't heard, except in conversation with the main characters or flashbacks. Three of those characters aren't very likeable. At times they seem downright cruel (with the exception of Ann Marie who has a martyr complex). That doesn't stop the book from being a very good read.The Kellehers are an Irish family from Boston. Every summer they go to their summer house in Maine. Lately though, Alice's children and grandchildren have been coming at different times,in shifts. Alice's parts are told in memories and in the present. The family really doesn't get along. In fact, Kathleen hasn't been to the house in the ten years since the family patriarch Daniel died. But, she does come. When all three generations converge on the house one last time. Maine is about family secrets, addiction, dysfunction, generation gaps and much more. The ending was a surprise.