(Ebook) Pete and Alice in Maine: A Novel by Caitlin Shetterly ISBN 9780063242678, 0063242672

(Ebook) Pete and Alice in Maine: A Novel by Caitlin Shetterly ISBN 9780063242678, 0063242672

"Pete & Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, & a family, in crisis—set during the plague years when the entire world was in crisis. As she investigates the insidious effect of lies, betrayal, fear, & anger, not to mention the mundane joys & wrenching heartaches of everyday life, Caitlin Shetterly gets to the heart of what it means to be a family." — Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of The ExilesA powerful & beautifully written debut novel that intimately explores a fractured marriage & the struggles of modern parenthood, set against the backdrop of the chaotic spring of 2020.Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the Covid pandemic takes hold in New York City, Alice packs up her family & flees to their vacation home in Maine. She hopes to find sanctuary—from the uncertainties of the exploding pandemic & her faltering...marriage.Putting distance between herself & the stresses & troubles of the city, Alice begins to feel safe & relieved. But the locals are far from friendly. Trapped & forced into quarantine by hostile neighbors, Alice sees the imprisoning structure of her life in his new predicament. Stripped down to the bare essentials of survival & tending to the needs of her two children, she can no longer ignore all the ways in which she feels limited & lost—lost in the big city, lost as a wife, lost as a mother, lost as a daughter & lost as a person.As the world shifts around her & the balance in her marriage tilts, Alice & her husband, Pete, are left to consider if what keeps their family safe is the same thing as what keeps their family together.Caitlin Shetterly is the author of Modified & Made for You & Me, & the editor of the bestselling Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce.