The Road to Dalton - Shannon Bowring
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Adults, LGBT
From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard Russo calls, measured, wise, and beautiful., Its 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice thats charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend., Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time nowa fact both accepted and ignored by their husbands. Across town, new mother Bridget lives with her high school sweetheart Nate, and is struggling with postpartum after a traumatic birth. And nearer still is teenager Greg, trying to define the complicated feelings he has about himself and his two close friends., The Road to Dalton offers valuable understandings of what it means to be alive in the worl
