A Manhattan corporate attorney, with career and marriage in turmoil, drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together, he meets a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land threatened with development, a fight that eventually endangers her life. The tension between past and present comes alive as he finds new meaning in life through the natural world and social justice for a long-oppressed race of people.
The novel takes place ion the eastern end of Long Island, the ancestral home of the Montauks, a Native American tribe. The story reveals how they lost their land to the settlers and historical characters come to life in a battle to preserve their land.
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978-1-63210-081-8 (9781632100818)
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As a writer and editor, Kay Tobler Liss worked for newspapers and magazines in New York and Maine for many decades, including Sunstorm Arts, House and Hamptons Magazine, and was managing editor of The Shelter Island Reporter. Liss studied Literature at Bard College and Environmental Studies at Southampton College and taught courses in both fields in New York and Maine. She won a prize for her poetry at 17 years old, and was published in the Smith College literary magazine. She lived in Montauk, New York for 13 years and now lives in Maine.
