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Beth Gutcheon's critically acclaimed family saga Leeway Cottage was a significant accomplishment: a brilliant and moving story of war and marriage and their implications that enchanted viewers. Good-bye and Amen is another chapter for the family of Leeway Cottage, the story of what goes on when those most powerful people in virtually any family episode, the parents, have gone the stage.The complicated marriage of the gifted Danish pianist Laurus Moss to the provincial American child of privilege Sydney Brant was a secret to many who recognized them, including their three children. Now, Eleanor, Monica, and Jimmy Moss have to decide how to divide or promote what Laurus and Sydney have gone them without losing one another.Secure and cheerful Eleanor, the oldest, wants little for herself but much for her children. Monica, the least-loved middle child, brings her younger looking scars to the desk, as well as the baggage of a hard marriage to the charismatic Norman, who remaining an excellent legal career, though not his ambition, to be an Episcopal priest. Youngest and best-loved Jimmy, who made a coach wreck of his young adulthood, has came back after an extended amount of alienation from the family amazingly intact but extremely hard for his sisters to read.Having lived through childhoods both materially blessed and emotionally difficult, with a daddy who could appear uninvolved and a mom who treasured a good family game of "let's you and him deal with," the Mosses have created strong adult bonds that do not require wants to harm. But it's difficult to divide a beloved summer time house 3 ways and keep it too. They all know what's at stake-in a world of atomized families, a house like Leeway Cottage could possibly be the glue that keeps decades of cousins and grandchildren deeply linked to one another. But knowing it's important doesn't make it easy.
