This was a first for me from this author... but will certainly not be the last.
I loved everything about this novel. The setting was wonderful (a small beach side town on Lake Superior), the theme of transformation was life affirming, the characters were well developed and so likable, the plot was original, interesting and well thought out and the dialog was laugh out loud funny in some places, thoughtful and meaningful in others. All around an A+ home run for me.
Brynn is a woman who has just survived a traumatic year, with the end of a serious relationship and nursing her beloved mother through cancer to death.
At the urging of a friend, Brynn decides to spend the summer in a boarding house in a small town named Wharton on the shores of Lake Superior. Here, she find a cast of lovable characters in this close knit community. She meets a mysterious man covered head to toe in tattoos with a mysterious career and past, the lovable couple who run the boarding house (she is friendly and flamboyant, he is caring and loves to do the cooking for the tenants). There is the fun loving gay couple, Gil and Jason, who decide to move Jason's former fragile wife in to live with them after she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's... and many more.
Without giving too much away, I'll just say it is a mixture of love story, ghost story, a story of friendship and family, creepy but also cozy, sad and funny and suspenseful and comforting and life affirming... with a touch of time travel.
I highly recommend this one!
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