[Michlib-l] Help Me Find a Book!

[Eyal Suseela]

Could it be Bodies of Water, by T. Greenwood?

On Thursday, April 23, 2015, Kathryn Bergeron <
kathryn.bergeron at baldwinlib.org> wrote:

> Dear Collective Brain -
>
> I have a patron that is looking for the title of a book that she got
> through MeL last November and loved. We've run a few titles by her, but
> none of them have hit the mark. I was hoping that maybe someone else had
> read it or knew of it.
>
>    - Realistic fiction/literary fiction
>    - Narrator is an elderly woman, living in California, who must return
>    to a place from her past (possibly on the East Cost). She isn't happy about
>    it. Then the book is a flashback to the events of that place from the 1950s
>    or 1960s.
>    - About families who are neighbors
>    - Focus is on the mothers and children of each family.
>    - The mothers of the families have an affair with each other.
>    - It takes place near the beach/shore/water/ocean/sea, and some
>    related word is in the title of the book.
>    - It is written by a female author
>
> Books that we have tried (but failed) with are:
>
>    - *The Paying Guests* by Sarah Waters
>    - *My Real Children* by Jo Walton
>    - *Snapshots* by William Norris
>    - *The Beach House* by Georgia Bockover
>    - *Sea Escape* by Lynne Reeves Griffin
>    - *The Lake House* by Marci Nault
>
> - Kathryn "Utterly Stubborn in Finding Books" Bergeron
> --------------------------
> Kathryn Bergeron, MSI
> Associate Director
> Baldwin Public Library
> 300 West Merrill Street
> Birmingham, MI 48009
> 248-647-1700
>
> http://www.baldwinlib.org
>
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