The Ocean House - by Mary-Beth Hughes (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Three generations of women hover between wishful innocence and a more knowing resilience against the cruelty that hidden secrets of the past propel into the present.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A stunning story cycle from bestselling <i>New York Times</i> Notable author, Mary-Beth Hughes, <i>The Ocean House</i> explores the fractured lives of families from a beach town on the Jersey Shore as the consequences of loss pass through generations.</b></p><p>Faith, a mother of two young children, Cece and Connor, is in need of summer childcare. As a member of a staid old beach club in her town and a self-made business consultant, she is appalled when her brother-in-law sends her an unruly, ill-mannered teenager named Lee-Ann who appears more like a wayward child than competent help. What begins as a promising start to a redemptive relationship between the two ends in a tragedy that lands Faith in a treatment facility, leveled by trauma.</p> <p>Years later, Faith and her mother, Irene, visit Cece in college. A fresh-faced student with a shaved head and new boyfriend, Cece has become a force of her own. Meanwhile, her grandmother, Irene, is in the early stages of dementia. She slips in and out of clarity, telling lucid tales of her own troubled youth. Faith dismisses her mother's stories as bids for attention. The three generations of women hover between wishful innocence and a more knowing resilience against the cruelty that hidden secrets of the past propel into the present.</p> <p>Including stories from an array of characters orbiting Faith's family, <i>The Ocean House</i> weaves an exquisite world of complicated family tales on the Jersey Shore. In ever-tender and elegant prose, Mary-Beth Hughes masterfully explores the emotional consequences of loss and the saving graces of love.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>Advance Praise for <i>The Ocean House</i></b></p><p></p><p> [<i>The Ocean House</i>] accrues a rich, novelistic sweep and leaves readers with a vertiginous sense of contingency. --<i><b>New York Times</i></b><p> "Hughes's deep dive into its characters is reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's close study of her Bloomsbury denizens, or J.D. Salinger's psychological probings of the Glass family. Regarding her resources of art and craft, Hughes is just as masterful. ... Hughes doles out details deftly; nothing is incidental. ... <i>The Ocean House</i> is a collection so varied in its telling, rich in its details and character-divining that it demands to be re-read...Her penetrating glimpses into the depths of these lives make us more deeply aware of our own."--<b><i>Arts Fuse</i></b><p> Arresting... With an enviable ear for dialogue and high command of prose, Hughes finds in these overlapping stories a stark beauty amid scenes of suffering and death.[She] is a careful reader of her characters, and captures their small, easy-to-miss moments of humanity through life's vicissitudes. These stories pack a punch. --<b><i>Publisher's Weekly</i></b><p> "A Rube Goldberg-like collection of stories in which a single character from one tale trips a connection to another... A fascinating puzzle...Rich with detail and unexpected phrasing, Hughes' prose illuminates her dark emotional terrain. Grief-stricken yet beautiful portraits of fractured lives. --<b><i>Kirkus</i> (starred review)</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mary-Beth Hughes</b> is the author of the bestselling novel <i>Wavemaker II, </i> a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book, and the acclaimed collection <i>Double Happiness</i>, which earned a Pushcart Prize. Her latest book, <i>The Loved Ones, </i> was a <i>New York Times</i> Editors' Choice. Her stories have been published in <i>The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Georgia Review, </i> and <i>A Public Space</i>. She lives in Brooklyn and Rhinebeck, New York.
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