Eden (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781631521881)

2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in New Fiction
2017 Beverly Hills Book Award Winner in Women's Fiction
2018 IBPA Ben Franklin Finalist in Best New Voices: Fiction
Becca Meister Fitzpatrick--wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community--is the dutiful steward of her family's iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter's boldness in the face of impending single-motherhood, and summons the courage to reveal a secret she was forced to bury long ago: the existence of a daughter she gave up fifty years ago. The question now is how her other daughter, Rachel--with whom Becca has always had a strained relationship--will react. Eden is the account of the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, as Becca prepares to disclose her secret and her son and brothers conspire to put the estate on the market, interwoven with the century-old history of Becca's family--her parents' beginnings and ascent into affluence, and her mother's own secret struggles in the grand home her father named "Eden."

Author: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
ISBN-10: 1631521888
ISBN-13: 9781631521881
Publisher: She Writes Press
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2017
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2017 pg. 46
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2017 pg. 123
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2017
Foreword 11/18/2017