Overview
On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and love
After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up—a place she swore she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island…from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies.
Little Great Island Illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.
Review
Mari and her young son have run away from a cult. She returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up. But, things have changed. The climate issues have made life much harder on this island. Mari is determined to try and correct what she can, even if it is a run in with one of her old friends.
As beautiful as the island sounds, and trust me, it sounds beautiful, this novel talked a bit too much about it. I know, I know…it was just a bit overloaded with ecosystems and climate changes. But, this is what draws you in because the setting is great.
Then there is Mari. She is broken in so many ways. She struggles to overcome her own trauma and to help her young son. Now, there is one part that bothered me a bit. When she runs away from the cult, her son’s mouth is hurting from something her husband did. She never looks in it, she never takes him to a doctor. She just mentions it quite a few times and does not really take care of it. This just didn’t fit. But, Mari and the cult issue is what kept this story moving for me.
This is 3.5 stars rounded up.
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