**This *New York Times*βbestselling novel of a troubled family in 1960s Vermont is "t****eeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive" (*The New Yorker*).** It is the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. With no help from her alcoholic ex-husband, Marie Fer
Songs in Ordinary Time
β Scribed by Morris, Mary McGarry
- Book ID
- 109868216
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 484 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101199473
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β¦ Synopsis
This New York Timesβbestselling novel of a troubled family in 1960s Vermont is "t****eeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive" (The New Yorker).
It is the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. With no help from her alcoholic ex-husband, Marie Fermoyle is raising three children on the edge of poverty. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice, is becoming emotionally involved with a local priest in a staunchly Catholic town that disapproves of Marie's divorce. Alice's brother Norm is a hotheaded sixteen-year-old, and twelve-year-old Benjy is isolated and full of anxieties, looking with yearning at the Klubocks next door, who seem to live an orderly, peaceful life much unlike his own family's.
Now, Marie has met a new man: Omar Duvall, who talks about opportunities and riches but so far seems only to sponge off the Fermoyles. A lonely, desperate single mother like Marie is easy prey for...
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