Synopses & Reviews
Grace Dane Mazur's dark, sexy novel opens as a stranger, Grenville, bathes himself nude in Maggie Gifford's laundry sink, thus upsetting the balance of erotic tensions of a large and quirky family. Mazur's characters live along the margins in a coastal New England town. The narrator, Maggie's cousin Jake, is a gardener, ne'er-do-well, and mail-order minister, whose only predictable income is the remittance he gets to stay away from his proper Newport family. Secretive encounters lead through a web of trespasses until the bonds which have been broken are solidly and luminously rebuilt.