Margreete's Harbor, winner of the 2022 Maine Literary Fiction Book Award, is now available in hardback, ebook, and digital audio formats.
A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home.
Margreete’s Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete calls her daughter, Liddie, to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. Margreete, her husband, and their children, Eva and Bernie, move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete’s isolated home and begin a new life.
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Eleanor Morse
Eleanor Morse is an educator and author of four novels. White Dog Fell from the Sky was a Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week; An Unexpected Forest won the 2008 Independent Book Publisher's Award for best regional fiction and the 2008 Maine Literary Award. She is on the faculty of Spalding University's School of Creative and Professional Writing and lives on a small island off the coast of Maine.
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