A woman writer rents a room for the summer in Dunnet Landing, a fishing village on the coast of Maine, from Mrs. Almira Todd, a widow who gathers herbs and doses the neighbourhood. Through her she meets old Captain Littlepage, Mrs. Todd’s mother on Green Island, shy brother William and the story of poor Joanna, who exiled herself to an island.
A quiet 1896 masterpiece of American regional writing, best read slowly, like a long summer. Download the free EPUB.