title: Grand Isle: A Novel
author:  Sarah Van Arsdale 
description: Van Arsdale is a masterful writer. She created characters with wonderful depth. They will stay with the reader long after the final chapter is read.  San Francisco Book Review<br /><br />absorbing and suspenseful  [Van Arsdales] depiction of place is often lyrical and dead-on.  East Hampton Star<br /><br />With fine prose and keen attention to emotional detail, Sarah Van Arsdale gives us a real community of friends and neighbors in a summer colony on Long Island Sound. A brutal accident disrupts this Eden, revealing tangles of grief, guilt, and love in these deeply connected lives. Death here is as final and confusing as it is in reality. Van Arsdale makes us care about her large cast of island people: male and female; young and old; middle class and working class; good and half-good. This is a smart, rich, grown-up novel that can be compared to the best work of Richard Russo and Ann Beattie.  Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters: A Novel<br /><br />This is not just a lyrical novel of loss and renewal, but a truly gripping read. The complicated characters of Grand Isle hurtle toward their fates in a way that is somehow both inevitable and completely unexpected. Van Arsdale brings a naturalists trained eye to her vivid descriptions, and the line she draws between the human and natural worlds is as shifting and elusive as the line between water and land in the tidal marshes that surround this island community.  Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
zlib_text: **Table of Contents**
  
  Title Page
  
  At a Glance: an Isle of Synne short story
  
  At a Glance: an Isle of Synne short story
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  Other books by Christina Britton:
  
  At a Glance: | an Isle of Synne short story
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Epilogue
  
  About the Author
  
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   **At a Glance: an Isle of Synne short story**
  
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  This ebook is licensed to you for your personal enjoyment only, and may not be
  sold, shared, or given away. This book is a work of fiction. Names,
  characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or
  are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to
  actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  At a Glance: an Isle of Synne short story
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Christina Britton. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  
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