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A masterful book that confronts the dilemmas of competition, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil Conflict.... Fifteen years following the publication of his acclaimed book Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman earnings to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shoreline. It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Pass up Mary Bayly, the current owner of the legendary Mason family real estate, the Retreat. Pass up Mary is dying. She programs to provide the Retreat to the closest immediate descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he is able to allure the old girl, secure the real estate and be back Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of an extended day, he hears the tales that will forever bind him and his family to the land. He hears of Pass up Mary's grandfather brutally providing all his slaves in 1857 to avoid the reprisals he believes will come with Emancipation. He hears of the doomed work by Wyatt Bayly, Pass up Mary's father, to turn the Retreat into a massive peach orchard, and of Pass up Mary and her sibling growing up in a fractured and warring household. He discovers of Abel Terrell, son of free blacks who becomes mind orchardist, and whose family becomes intimately connected to the Baylys and the Mason legacy. The crisis in this richly textured book proceeds through vibrant set portions: on rural 19th-century industry; on a boyhood on the Eastern Shoreline of Maryland; on the unbreakable divisions of competition and category; and, finally, on two households wanting to save a son and a princess from the potential issues of their own innocent love. The result is a glowing work of profound perception and peerless creativeness about the central issue of American history.
