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Bittersweet Manor

A Novel

By: Tory McCagg

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After a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she’s going to sell the family property—her inheritance. Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck Village, Connecticut, looking across the harbor to their family’s longtime home, the two women debate over Emma’s choice—and their conversation lays the framework for the book, which flows over the decades, all the way back to Gussie's youth and marriage, then forward through the lives of her three children, Auggie, Livy, and Alyssa, whose hopes and talents are warped by their mother’s influence and disappointed expectations. Expectations passed down through the generations. Subtle. Unspoken. Implacable. As Emma and Gussie remember the choices and dynamics that have produced the complicated tapestry that is their family’s history, Emma makes a number of surprising discoveries about her loved ones—and herself—and she prepares to do what no one else in her family has dared: let go of the past to make room for the future, though doing so will destroy the thing her grandmother holds most dear.

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Simon and Schuster

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1938314573

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At Crossroads with Chickens

A What If It Works? Adventure in Off-Grid Living and Quest for Home

By: Tory McCagg

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At Crossroads with Chickens

A What If It Works? Adventure in Off-Grid Living and Quest for Home

By: Tory McCagg

In 2012, McCagg and her husband built a solar-powered house in New Hampshire. It was to be a weekend getaway, with cats and chicks in tow, but they ended up moving there permanently when they learned their rooster would be banned back home in Rhode Island. While chicken kerfuffles lighten the mood, this is a story born of heartbreak, of yearning for the great beauty of the world as it used to be. McCagg interlaces her tale with her mother's battle with Parkinson's, braiding both Mother and Mother Nature in this perfect storm of personal growth rippling out to effect a larger transformation"--

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Bauhan Pub

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0872333175

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9780872333178

Bittersweet Manor

A Novel

By: Tory McCagg

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Bittersweet Manor

A Novel

By: Tory McCagg

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1938314573

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