SKYLAND
SKYLAND
A deeply moving novel that illuminates the complex ways we survive the unthinkable and slowly, painfully, learn to live again.
When Celia is murdered by a troubled young man from across the street, her family is left to navigate the unthinkable in their small town of Kittery, Maine. Desperate to help his daughters heal, widowed Henry sends young Nora and Lucy to Skyland Farm, a remote artists' retreat in the New Hampshire mountains run by his beloved cousin Franny.
The girls, overwhelmed by grief, struggle to find their footing among the resident artists. Nora grapples with her complicated feelings about her mother's murderer and former love interest, Blake, while forming a new bond with a young sculptor. Lucy, the sole witness to the crime, retreats into silence and the mysterious world of a painting above her bed. Back in Maine, Henry battles his own past when he becomes entangled with Blake's alcoholic mother, threatening his twelve years of sobriety.
Set against the rugged beauty of coastal Maine and the mountainous landscape of New Hampshire, Skyland reveals how art, nature, and unexpected friendships guide us back from the brink.