The Map of True Places
From Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, comes an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world. A respected Boston psychotherapist, Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats. But the actions...
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From Brunonia Barry, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, comes an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world. A respected Boston psychotherapist, Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats. But the actions of a patient throw Zee into emotional chaos and take her back to places she though she'd left behind. What starts as a brief visit home to Salem begins a larger journey. Suddenly having to care for her ailing father after his longtime companion moves out, Zee must come to terms with a strained and awkward relationship that has always been marked by half-truths and haunted by the untimely death of her mother. Overwhelmed by her new role, Zee must destroy the existing map of her life and chart a new course—one that will guide her not only into her future but into her past as well.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780061624780 (0061624780)
Publish date: May 4th 2010
Publisher: William Morrow
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
I really enjoyed this and highly recommend it!
After struggling with The Lace Reader, I wanted to give this author another chance before writing her off completely. She seems to have the same problem with each book she writes. She starts off with an idea that might be really interesting, but she can never figure out where she's going with it. Fi...
Zee Finch goes from stealing boats as an adolescent to being a respected psychotherapist as an adult. After the death of a patient she decides to return home to Salem. Although she makes this move to try and deal with things in her life, it only seems to make matters worse as her fiancée calls off...
I so much wanted to love this book, since her first novel, The Lace Reader, was one of my favorite novels. It's set in Salem, MA, so I saved it for our family vacation to Cape Cod. The book had an interesting plot, but I found the characters a bit flat. Good plot, though and still a fun 'beach re...