Thanks to Jessica Butler of Penguin Group, USA, I am giving away one copy of The Harbormaster’s Daughter.
Book Description:
Born out of wedlock, Vita is the product of the town’s two very different cultures: the hardworking fishing families of Portuguese descent and the “washashores” from the mainland who’ve drifted to the coast for its beauty. At sixteen, Vita is shy and isolated, estranged from her father and bullied at school, but she is determined to come out of herself, step by step.
When the shocking details of her past surface suddenly, Vita feels utterly betrayed by those closest to her, and the fraught tension between Oyster Creek’s two cultures comes to a head. LaRee must ask hard questions about herself as a mother, while Vita turns to unexpected avenues to find meaning and discovers that the truth is almost never found in black and white….
About Heidi Jon Schmidt:
Heidi Jon Schmidt is the author of The Rose Thieves, , Darling?, The Bride of Catastrophe, and The House on Oyster Creek. Her stories and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Grand Street, Yankee,and featured on National Public Radio. She has won awards including the O’Henry, Ingram-Merrill and James Michener Awards. She teaches in the Workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and lives on Cape Cod with her husband Roger Skillings and their daughter Marisa Rose.
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