![]() She and Daniela spend many hours exploring the lake and picking blueberries in distant coves. ![]() When Cadie discovers a boat floating on the lake early one morning with no one to claim it, she uncharacteristically seizes it and makes it her own. In New Hampshire, with their expensive false identity papers and new names, Raúl Garcia became an established businessman but he, his wife Dolores and daughter Daniela have never escaped the fear of being discovered and sent to an almost certain death. ![]() A decade earlier, they’d come to America from El Salvador as illegal immigrants, fleeing a violent military government which was supported by the United States. Cadie’s parents were artists, and Daniela’s parents, the Garcias, owned the hardware store in the nearby town of Maple Crest. One memorable summer, about 25 years before the present day of the novel, a friendship was forged between two girls living on the shore of a New Hampshire lake. In this case, the story remains uppermost, and the characters themselves embody the (mostly) good impulses. ![]() ![]() It isn’t always easy to do that without turning a book into a lecture or consciousness-raising exercise. Debut author Julie Carrick Dalton deserves praise for making concerns about important social issues – climate change and immigration – an integral part of her new novel. ![]()
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