title: The Ice Bridge: A Novel
author:  D.R. MacDonald 
description: During decades of marriage in a California college town, as the trajectories of their careers shifted, artist Anna Starling and her writer husband, Chet, each strayed from their marital bed. But when the love of a much younger woman strikes Chet like lightning, Anna leaves for remote Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. As she deals with her pain in private and tries to refresh her artwork gone stale, her nearest neighbor in the isolated community, solitary Murdock MacLennan, is grieving the recent cruel death of the woman he loved. Even in an area that values the work of the hands, modern life intrudes: where once there were rum runners, now there are drug smugglers, whose bale of marijuana goes missing and is found by Anna, a situation that draws her and Murdock closer. In MacDonald&#x2019;s languid prose, Cape Breton is as much a presence as Anna and Murdock; as their inner lives are probed, the area&#x2019;s landscape is detailed, and its midwinter cold is palpable. A vivid portrayal of a setting and the renewal of love after loss. --Michele Leber
zlib_text: > ALSO BY MARY LAWSON  
  >
  
  >  _Crow Lake_
  
  >  _The Other Side of the Bridge_
  
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