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From her medical center foundation, 99-year-old Isobel Howard recalls her unpredicted camaraderie with Cathryn, a childless, Chicago-born heiress who shunned her family, attended art university and committed an Irishman with no pedigree. During the summer of 1936, the women find themselves by itself in Cypress, MN, a mining town on the advantage of the glacier-fed lake. Isobel is the wife of the tailor, mother of three small children and a milliner by training. Her partner, Victor has considered their two young boys away with an island he has purchased - an extravagance that has become a sore point in their relationship. Left behind with her calm child, Louisa, Isobel revives her affinity for hatmaking. Throughout their shared times, Cathryn introduces Isobel to literature, artwork and a more cosmopolitan view of life, ultimately making Isobel an accomplice to the affair she actually is having with a local forest ranger. But there's a darker side to the idyll, and since older people Isobel reflects on the ensuing occurrences, it is clear that summer has exacted a heavy price. Sticklers for logic may question some turns of the storyline, and Stonich's prose comes with an eye for exquisite detail, checking into atmospherically rendered, carefully seen moments. Stonich unfurls a intricate, many-layered and suspenseful storyline; and, like Susan Minot and Anita Shreve, she handles flashbacks and modern details with equal precision.
