"The island, called Le Devin, is shaped womewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of les Salants, while the more prosperous village of La Houssiniere lies at her feet. You could walk between the towns in an hour, but they could not feel further apart, for between them lie years of animosity.
The townspeople of Les Salants say that if you kiss the feet of their patron saint and spit three times, something you've lost will come back to you. And so madeleine, who grew up on the island, returns after an absence of ten years spent in Paris. She is haunted by this place, and has never been able to feel at home anywhere else.
But when she arrives, she will find that her father- who once built fishing boats that fueled the town's livelihood - has become even more silent than ever, withdrawing almost completely into an interior world. And his decline seems reflected in the town itself, for when the only beach in Les Salants washed away, all tourism drifted back to la Houssiniere.
Madeleine herself has been adrift for a long time, yet almost against her will she soon finds herself united with the village's other lost souls in a struggle for survival and salvation."

RELEASE NOTES:

Not sure who will end up with this when I release it tomorrow at our get together

We had a wonderful live swap during our meetup today and this is one of the books I ended up with.

At the moment I'm going to set it aside for my mom (chargoyle). I'll be bringing her a bag of books to read when I see her for Thanksgiving.

I'll read it when I get it back from her.

I'm returning this book to my daughter(morsedode).

Reading this story gave me a view of life in an inbred French fishing village which I found intriguing. But it is a somewhat gloomy tale and definitely wasn't a "page turner".

This book is back with me

I'm ruthlessly weeding my overstuffed bookshelves and am setting this book aside to wild-release in the near future.

Left inside the East Street Book Depot