TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shipman,Viola
TI  - The edge of summer
SN  - 9781525804816
AV  - PS3619.H5788 E34 2022
U1  - 813/.6 23/eng/20220630
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PB  - Graydon House
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Death
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Bereavement
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Women dressmakers
KW  - Buttons
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - Includes reader's guide with discussion questions
N2  - "Devastated by the sudden death of her mother--a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, who overflowed with pearls of Ozarks wisdom but never spoke of her own family--Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but also her own place in the world. Recalling Miss Mabel's sewing notions that were her childhood toys, Sutton buys a collection of buttons at an estate sale from Bonnie Lyons, the imposing matriarch of the lakeside community. Propelled by a handful of trinkets left behind by her mother and glimpses into the history of the magical lakeshore town, Sutton becomes tantalized by the possibility that Bonnie is the grandmother she never knew. But is she? As Sutton cautiously befriends Bonnie and is taken into her confidence, she begins to uncover the secrets about her family that Miss Mabel so carefully hid, and about the role that Sutton herself unwittingly played in it all"--Dust jacket flap
ER  -