It's been more than two decades since
Spartina won the National Book Award and was acclaimed by critics as being "possibly the best American novel ... since The Old Man and the Sea" (
The New York Times Book Review), but in this extraordinary follow-up novel barely any time has passed in the magical landscape of salt ponds and marshes in John Casey's fictional Rhode Island estuary.
Ostracized at her new school for her illegitimacy, lower-income status, and unfashionable figure, scholarship student Rose finds unexpected strength in her family ties to everyone in her Rhode Island fishing community.