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Water Music
By: Marcia Peck
Publication Date: May 5, 2023
Published By: Sea Crow Press
244 Pages
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BLURB (From Amazon)
The bridge at Sagamore was closed when we got there that summer of 1956. We had to cross the canal at Buzzards Bay over the only other roadway that tethered Cape Cod to the mainland.
Thus twelve-year-old Lily Grainger, while safe from ‘communists and the Pope,’ finds her family suddenly adrift. That was the summer the Andrea Doria sank, pilot whales stranded, and Lily’s father built a house he couldn’t afford. Target practice on a nearby decommissioned Liberty Ship echoed not only the rancor in her parents’ marriage, a rancor stoked by Lily’s competitive uncle, but also Lily’s troubles with her sister, her cousins, and especially with her mother. In her increasingly desperate efforts to salvage her parents’ marriage, Lily discovers betrayals beyond her understanding as well as the small ways in which people try to rescue each other. She draws on her music lessons and her love of Cape Cod—from Sagamore and Monomoy to Nauset Spit and the Wellfleet Dunes, seeking safe passage from the limited world of her salt marsh to the larger, open ocean.
MY REVIEW
Debut novel by Marcia Peck is a beautiful story of Lily and her family spending the summer in Cape Cod with all their trials and tribulations. It’s a lot of one girl to experience in one summer. There’s discord within the family, a death, a first crush, a hurricane, and a shipwreck! Peck describes everything with such precision that the picture is vividly painted in your mind. I felt for Lily as I experienced all of this through her eyes. I enjoyed Lily as a character, as well as many of the other characters. It felt at times that she was wise beyond her years. The story is relatable in some ways in that all families have their issues, and their secrets. Overall, this just a really beautiful story.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marcia Peck’s writing has received a variety of awards, including New Millenium Writings (First prize for “Memento Mori”) and Lake Superior Writers’ Conference (First Prize for “Pride and Humility”). Her articles have appeared in Musical America, Strad Magazine, Strings Magazine, Senza Sordino, and the op-ed pages of the Minneapolis StarTribune. Marcia’s fiction has appeared in Chautauqua Journal, New Millenium Writings, Gemini Magazine, and Glimmer Train, among others.
Growing up in New Jersey with parents who were both musicians, Marcia set out to be the best cellist she could be. She spent two years studying in Germany in the Master Class of the renowned Italian cellist, Antonio Janigro. Since then she has spent her musical career with the Minnesota Orchestra, where she met and married the handsome fourth horn player.
Marcia has always been a cat person. But she has learned to love dogs—even the naughty ones, maybe especially the naughty ones.
Website: https://www.marciapeck.com/
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