Cascade: A Novel
Book Details
Author(s)Maryanne O'Hara
PublisherPenguin Books
ISBN / ASIN0143123513
ISBN-139780143123514
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank639,850
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A locked box and a deathbed promise. A town threatened with extinction by flooding.
And a raft of difficult personal decisions.
Art, history, mysteries. In 1935, Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a gifted, Paris-trained artist, has married in haste, in the once-thriving summer town of Cascade, to provide a home for her dying father and save the family's renowned Shakespeare theater. Now Cascade is on the short list to be flooded to provide drinking water for Boston, MA, and Dez's growing discontent is complicated by her attraction to Jacob, a fellow artist. When tragic events unfold, Dez makes bad choices that force her to answer hard questions: Must she keep her promises? Is it morally possible to set herself free?
"What do we have to give up to be whom we yearn to be? CASCADE unfolds like a Shakespearean tragedy,with an ending you won't see coming." The Boston Globe
"Gorgeously written and involving, Cascade explores the age-old conflict between a woman's perceived duty and her deepest desires." People Magazine, People Pick
And a raft of difficult personal decisions.
Art, history, mysteries. In 1935, Desdemona Hart Spaulding, a gifted, Paris-trained artist, has married in haste, in the once-thriving summer town of Cascade, to provide a home for her dying father and save the family's renowned Shakespeare theater. Now Cascade is on the short list to be flooded to provide drinking water for Boston, MA, and Dez's growing discontent is complicated by her attraction to Jacob, a fellow artist. When tragic events unfold, Dez makes bad choices that force her to answer hard questions: Must she keep her promises? Is it morally possible to set herself free?
"What do we have to give up to be whom we yearn to be? CASCADE unfolds like a Shakespearean tragedy,with an ending you won't see coming." The Boston Globe
"Gorgeously written and involving, Cascade explores the age-old conflict between a woman's perceived duty and her deepest desires." People Magazine, People Pick
- The Boston Globe Book Club - Inaugural Pick
- People Magazine "People Pick of the Week"
- People Magazine "Great Reads, New in Paperback"
- MLA "Must Read" Fiction Honors
- Finalist, Massachusetts Book Award
- Slate Magazine "Best Books," "Best Summer Reads?
- WBUR Radio Boston: Good Reads for Summer
- Boston Globe "Best of the New?
- Library Journal "Best Bet"
