Red Hook Road : a novel / Ayelet Waldman.
After John Tetherly and Becca Copaken die in a freak car accident an hour after their wedding, their families are left to bridge stark class and cultural divides, and eventually forge deep-rooted bonds thanks to the twin deities of love and music. Becca's family is well off, from New York, and summers in Red Hook, Maine, a small coastal town where John's blue-collar single mother, Jane, cleans houses for a living. They interact, awkwardly, over how to bury the couple, the staging of an anniversary party, and over Jane's adopted niece, whose amazing musical talent makes a connection to Becca's ailing grandfather, a virtuoso violinist, who agrees to give her lessons. Becca's younger sister, Ruthie, a Fulbright scholar, meanwhile, falls in love with John's younger brother, Matt, the first Tetherly to go to college, before he drops out to work at a boatyard and finish restoring his brother's sailboat, which he plans on sailing to the Caribbean.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385517867
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2010.
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Subject: | Weddings > Fiction. Traffic fatalities > Fiction. Social conflict > Fiction. Grief > Juvenile fiction. Grief > Fiction. Traffic accidents > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Romance fiction. |
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