Caitlin Shetterly is the author of Modified, Made for You and Me, and the bestselling Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce.
Pete and Alice in Maine is her first novel.
A Maine native, she graduated with honors from Brown University and now lives with her two sons and husband in her home state.
“Shetterly’s debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film.” —Allegra Goodman, The New York Times
Pete and Alice in Maine
“Thought-provoking and raw, this pandemic reflection is about so much more than lockdown — it’s about our roles in society and how to come into our own as mothers and women.” — Zibby Owens, Good Morning America
“The family’s year of living dangerously unfolds slowly, yet compellingly…What we see from the distance of the novel and its fundamentally earnest protagonists is that despite the boredom, fear, loneliness and despair the pandemic wrought, it also brought the potential to become the only thing we have to look forward to: the better, happier humans we aspire to be…I loved reading this book, which I gulped down in two otherwise busy days.” — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times
“Pete and Alice in Maine is a tender, big-hearted, clear-eyed portrait of a marriage, and a family, in crisis—set during the plague years when the entire world was in crisis. As she investigates the insidious effect of lies, betrayal, fear, and anger, not to mention the mundane joys and wrenching heartaches of everyday life, Caitlin Shetterly gets to the heart of what it means to be a family.” — Christina Baker Kline, The New York Times bestselling author of The Exiles
“Maine resident Shetterly has written a masterly debut novel about the first year of the plague and its corrosive effects on one family in the United States struggling to survive intact. Readers will be hard-pressed to leave this story behind.” — Library Journal
“[A] perceptive debut novel…the psychological acuity applied to the family drama is undeniable.” — Publishers Weekly
“Pete and Alice in Maine explores what happens to a strained marriage during the early days of the pandemic.” — Scott Simon, NPR
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