Water Music bookcover

Water Music

A Cape Cod Story
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Description

The bridge at Sagamore was closed when we got there that summer of 1956. We had to cross the canal at Buzzards Bay over the only other roadway that tethered Cape Cod to the mainland.Thus twelve-year-old Lily Grainger, while safe from 'communists and the Pope, ' finds her family suddenly adrift. That was the summer the Andrea Doria sank, pilot whales stranded, and Lily's father built a house he couldn't afford. Target practice on a nearby decommissioned Liberty Ship echoed not only the rancor in her parents' marriage, a rancor stoked by Lily's competitive uncle, but also Lily's troubles with her sister, her cousins, and especially with her mother.

Product Details

PublisherSea Crow Press
Publish DateMay 05, 2023
Pages244
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9798986567686
Dimensions8.5 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches | 0.7 pounds

About the Author

Marcia Peck's writing has received awards from New Millenium Writings (First prize for "Memento Mori"), Tamarack Awards (honorable mention for "An Unexpected Cadence"), Lake Superior Writers' Conference (First Prize for "Pride and Humility"), Glimmer Train (finalist for Very Short Fiction Award for "The Flavor of Borscht"), Flashquake (nomination for Pushcart Prize for "Long Distance"), MnArtists MiniStories (Winner for "Little Vladimir's Father"), Open to Interpretation: Fading Light (Honorable Mention for "Sextet"), Gemini Magazine (Honorable Mention for "Lasting Formations"). Marcia's articles have appeared in Musical America, Strad Magazine, Strings Magazine, Senza Sordino, Life in the Real World: How to Make Music Graduates Employable Common Ground, Showcase, the magazine of the Minnesota Orchestra and the op-ed pages of the Minneapolis StarTribune.Her fiction has appeared in Chautauqua Journal, New Millenium Writings, Gemini Magazine, Glimmer Train, 26 Minnesota Writers (Nodine Press), Tribute to Orpheus 2 (Kearney Books), three volumes of Open to Interpretation: Fading Light (Taylor and O'Neill), among others. Her work has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Loft Literary Center, and the Jerome Foundation, Ragdale Foundation and Hambidge Center.

Reviews

"Wise, funny and deeply moving." -Carol Dines, author of This Distance We Call Love and The Take-Over Friend


"Observant and sensitive, deeply attuned to the beauty and fragility of the natural and human worlds." -Andy Brown, author of The Tree Climbing Cure and Grace Notes and Other Poems


"Peck has written a moving and melodic triumph of imagination and story, a fine harmony of intimacies and passions." -Nicole Helget, author of The Summer of Ordinary Ways

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