The Ice Margin

by Marcia Dalton (2010)
softcover

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Marcia Dalton is a compelling storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of the human heart. She takes what, in the hands of a lesser writer, could easily become a “Cape Cod romance novel” and instead shapes it into a thoroughly satisfying and original work of art. Her evocation of the Cape landscape is the best I have read in years. In her skillful weaving of the ordinary and the transcendent, she convinces us that this is, in fact, the way we live. There is much wisdom and pleasure in this book.
-Robert Finch, author of Death of a Hornet and Other Cape Cod Stories and editor of A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader

The Ice Margin is the story of Anna, a woman on the verge of quiet yet total change. A surgical accident to her older daughter has shattered Anna’s life, leaving her with a daughter with a paralyzed body and a pre-school mind. Shunned by city friends who don’t know how to help or don’t want to for long, Anna falls in love with a home she’s unexpectedly acquired from her husband’s side of the family. In the wild beauty of Cape Cod, Anna finds herself relishing solitude, unconventional friendships, a rich inner life. Whether she will actually allow herself to live the life she wants or slide back into a cold, unforgiving marriage haunts the pages of this riveting, beautiful novel. Her voice as gentle and natural as that of a friend, yet spiced with penetrating insight and gorgeous descriptions of place, Marcia Dalton is stimulating, comforting, and irresistible to read.
-Julie Brickman, author of What Birds Can Only Whisper