Crawley, his wife and four children, and Mrs. Their only company at the isolated lighthouse is the head keeper, Mr. The next thing she knows, she’s married and en route with Oskar to a post as assistant lighthouse keeper that he expects will give him time for his electrical experiments. What’s the point of the education she’s receiving at the Milwaukee College for Females if all she’s going to do with it is make a perfect bourgeois home for Ernst, the family friend earmarked as her husband since childhood? When his cousin Oskar comes to visit, Trudy finds that this intellectual, iconoclastic dropout expresses her own restlessness and impatience. Trudy is no longer sure she wants the conventional future her parents have mapped out for her in Milwaukee circa 1897. On a lighthouse off the northern California coast, a young woman discovers her husband’s true nature-and her own-in Schwarz’s latest thoughtful exploration of family ties ( So Long at the Fair, 2008, etc.).
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