Could it be Bodies of Water, by T. Greenwood?<span></span><br><br>On Thursday, April 23, 2015, Kathryn Bergeron &lt;<a href="mailto:kathryn.bergeron@baldwinlib.org">kathryn.bergeron@baldwinlib.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Collective Brain -<div><br></div><div>I have a patron that is looking for the title of a book that she got through MeL last November and loved. We&#39;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. </div><div><ul><li>Realistic fiction/literary fiction</li><li>Narrator is an elderly woman, living in California, who must return to a place from her past (possibly on the East Cost). She isn&#39;t happy about it. Then the book is a flashback to the events of that place from the 1950s or 1960s.</li><li>About families who are neighbors</li><li>Focus is on the mothers and children of each family.</li><li>The mothers of the families have an affair with each other. </li><li>It takes place near the beach/shore/water/ocean/sea, and some related word is in the title of the book.</li><li>It is written by a female author</li></ul><div>Books that we have tried (but failed) with are:</div></div><div><ul><li><u>The Paying Guests</u> by Sarah Waters</li><li><u>My Real Children</u> by Jo Walton</li><li><u>Snapshots</u> by William Norris</li><li><u>The Beach House</u> by Georgia Bockover</li><li><u>Sea Escape</u> by Lynne Reeves Griffin</li><li><u>The Lake House</u> by Marci Nault</li></ul></div><div>- Kathryn &quot;Utterly Stubborn in Finding Books&quot; Bergeron<br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--------------------------<br>Kathryn Bergeron, MSI<br>Associate Director<br>Baldwin Public Library<br>300 West Merrill Street<br>Birmingham, MI 48009<br>248-647-1700
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