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In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard. A little more than two miles down a dirt road, it had no electricity or modern plumbing, the roof leaked, and mice had invaded the walls. It was perfect.
Sitting on Tisbury Great Pond-well stocked with delicious oysters and crab-the house faced the ocean and the sky. Though improvements were made, the ethos remained the same: no heat, television, or telephone. Instead, there were countless hours at the beach, meals cooked and savored with friends; nights talking under the stars, until, in 2014, the house was sold.
Sitting on Tisbury Great Pond-well stocked with delicious oysters and crab-the house faced the ocean and the sky. Though improvements were made, the ethos remained the same: no heat, television, or telephone. Instead, there were countless hours at the beach, meals cooked and savored with friends; nights talking under the stars, until, in 2014, the house was sold.
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"For anyone who has ever been curious about life on the Vineyard, or fantasized about settling in, Blais offers a diverting portrait."
The Boston Globe
"A bittersweet ode to a Martha's Vineyard home . . . The chapter on formidable Vineyard doyenne and Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham is . . . positively luminous with nostalgic affection. And the broader canvas of Vineyard life-the shops, the storms, the wry local humor-is painted with exactly the kind of skill and evocation readers would expect from the author of the bestselling In Thes
The Christian Science Monitor
"Full of beguiling stories and memories."
The National Book Review