On an island off the coast of Maine, Mara Lincoln is born on the day her father is lost at sea and her mother dies, and she is raised by her grandparents. When a little boy, Moses, is washed ashore from a wreck, the two grow up together among fishermen, sea captains and the shrewd village nurses Aunt Roxy and Aunt Ruey.
Stowe’s tender regional novel, admired by Sarah Orne Jewett, rich in the speech and life of a New England fishing community. Download the free EPUB.