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Editor’s Pick, Best Literature & Fiction, Amazon Books, July, 2023
“When we first meet the title characters of Caitlin Shetterly’s gripping novel Pete and Alice in Maine, they’re fleeing pandemic ravaged New York with their children for the relative safety of their second home. How satisfying it would be in this age of easy social media judgment to despise them for their privilege. The only thing preventing it, really, is that this very fine novel—like all good novels—insists upon getting to know them. I loved it.” — Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls
“A vividly realistic portrait of day-to-day life during lockdown, of the ways the pandemic both cleaved families together and wrenched them apart. Laced with wry humor, Pete and Alice in Maine is that rare thing: a deeply intelligent page-turner.” — Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
“This novel has its thumb on the pulse of our times, the pandemic and all its costs and upheavals, our political and social fault lines, climate change as we try to raise children into a new world. Yet it is, at heart, a familiar and intimate story of a marriage and a family struggling within its own universe of hurt and betrayal. Shetterly refuses to offer easy answers in this powerful, beautifully written novel.” — Meredith Hall, author of Beneficence and Without a Map
“Rarely is a fictional voice so intimate, honest, and revealing. Alice’s carefully created family life is interrupted and her consequent fears are described with deep intelligence in exquisite sentences. I loved this book!” — Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point and In the Gloaming
“In this taut, riveting novel, Shetterly has created a lush, raw world: a passionate and damaged marriage; a family coming apart and knitting back together during a pandemic; a starkly unwelcoming place that becomes home. In all its multi-layered emotional facets, this book cuts deep, moving and true to the end.” — Kate Christensen, author of The Last Cruise
“It’s impossible not to think of [Lucy by the Sea] when you begin Pete and Alice…Shetterly’s assured writing and flawed, sometimes maddening characters…is wise about humans’ ambivalent feelings and often wryly funny…with daughters who bring wicked humor and fresh perspectives to the proceedings…relatable and entertaining, as is Shetterly’s ability to zero in on how many of us were feeling in the summer of 2020…” — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune
“Told in intimate, unsparing, often funny and always exacting detail…“Pete and Alice” delves thrillingly into a topic that has always been at the core of Shetterly’s work: the complex dynamics of marriage, in deed and in words both said and unsaid.” — Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News
“Caitlin Shetterly has written a passionate, provocative book that undoubtedly will be studied and scrutinized for the history it presents, and the stand it takes.” — Michael Paterniti, author of The Telling Room and Love and Other Ways of Dying
“[Shetterly’s] personal odyssey pursuing the truth, colored with clear scientific and historical context, is a clarion call about the dangers of corporate control of our food supply and, importantly, what people can do about it.” — Amy Goodman, host and executive producer, Democracy Now!
“Shetterly’s accessible, well-researched, and damning work brings clarity to an often fuzzy debate.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
“[Shetterly’s] passionate advocacy, combined with descriptions of multiple research studies and interviews with scientists, doctors, and farmers, makes a compelling case that consumers worldwide need more education on this important issue.” — Library Journal, starred review
“Modified is the intriguing and compelling story of one woman’s brave pursuit of her own health—and the facts about the food we eat. A thoroughly consuming read.” — Lily King, author of Euphoria
Maine Literary Award for Best Nonfiction, 2017
Caitlin received a grant from the Maine Arts Commission to do research for Modified.
“Caitlin Shetterly’s Made for You and Me is a beautiful, moving, haunting, and funny memoir about what really counts. It moves deftly and lightly between the west coast and the east coast, and frustration and hope, with pointed, buoyant lines that make you smile as they pierce your heart. Made for You and Me is a memoir about great people (with great dogs, too; funny how that works out) and their great new son going through a rough patch with grace and wisdom. Caitlin and her family will realize many dreams. And in the meantime, rather than despair, they have given us a sublime gift of a book.” ― Scott Simon, NPR
“In this compelling narrative, Shetterly reveals all the messy, mundane details of lives coming undone. However, as she acknowledges sadly, it’s her observations on the reduced American lifestyle that give her commentary an edge. Readers would be wise to heed her commentary on the loss of our small towns, homelessness, joblessness and the increasing economic divisions between Americans.” ― Publisher’s Weekly
A collection of short stories by such acclaimed authors as Ann Beattie, John Updike, Andre Dubus, John Cheever, Michael Chabon, Russell Banks, Edmund White, Raymond Carver, and Sherman Alexie explores the emotional upheaval of divorce and separation from the perspectives of spouses, children, and others affected by the dissolution of a marriage.
“A sense of freedom. A sense of failure. A range of reactions, from anger to relief to regret. This bestselling anthology explores the conflicting emotions surrounding divorce-in twenty-two outstanding short stories by “some of the countries most formidable authors” ― The New York Post
Indie Bestseller, 2002
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At the heart of the cookbook are recipes and stories from everyday Maine families. Breaking bread together gives us comfort and strength, in good times and bad. Whether we’re teaching our kids to cook family recipes over Zoom, or gathering together to share them at the table, our food traditions help define who we are, and bring us together as a community.
A collection of essays by top literary talents and food writers, Breaking Bread celebrates local foods, family, and community, while exploring how what’s on our plates engages with what’s off: grief, pleasure, love, ethics, race, and class.
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