Maxine Kumin

On the way over to the Island they composed the kind of grouping commonly sought by fashion photographers. One of those faintly insolent, terribly insouciant family sets you see from time to time in Vogue magazine, Sue Swanson thought. The still-yo [...]

"That was the most terrible winter of my life," Mary tells Andrew. "It rained the whole month of December, the rain line kept sneaking down from Oregon. There'd be these downpours, and a huge chunk of road would collapse. You couldn't go anywhere. [...]