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<p><P>One winter morning James Jack Wright finds ninety-four-year-old Marguerite Deo&#8212;the woman he has always known as &#8220;Tante&#8221;&#8212;lying dead in the woods outside his cabin, clad only in a flowered nightgown. With this arresting scene, Elizabeth Inness-Brown ushers readers into her mysterious and lyrical narrative, the story of two closely braided lives that forces a reconsideration of our notions of maternity, loyalty, love, and perhaps death itself. <P>As James Jack sets out to fulfill Marguerite&#8217;s unusual last wishes, the narrative unveils the secrets of their pasts. It arcs from Depression-era New Orleans to a barren New England island at the turn of the century, from an illicit passion and an unforgivable crime to the relationship between a small boy and a tough, reclusive woman who turns out to possess an unsuspected capacity for love.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The tragic family circumstances that bring together a young man and the "aunt" who raises him are the subject of this lyrical first novel, which ranges in setting from the rocky Northeast to the sultry South. The story begins on a tiny New England island in the late 1990s, as James Jack d

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Author

Elizabeth Inness-Brown; New Hampshire Library Association

Publisher

NHLA READS-TO-GO

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375726224

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (297 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14