Literary fiction · Coastal Maine
The particular arithmetic of staying.
Families who have gotten expert at not asking each other the one question that matters, until someone does. Two novels, each built on a number nobody talks about.
The Ways We Keep Water, by the numbers
- years of Tuesdays
- 42
- bag of herring, every week
- ½
- partner lost over the stern
- 1
- seconds he never told anyone about
- 4
The Ways We Keep Water
A Novel of a Maine Fishing Family
For forty-two years a Maine lobsterman has sold bait every Tuesday to the widow of the partner he lost overboard, and the summer his hands start to shake, his daughter finds the dead man’s logbook and the four seconds he never told anyone about.
Olive Kitteridge meets The Perfect Storm.
Jacob, by the numbers
- years behind vinyl
- 4
- years old
- 7
- seconds dead
- 47
- warm hands, and what they cost
- 2
Jacob
A Novel of a Boy, a Nurse, and a Gift
A pediatric nurse finally gets to take home the boy who spent four years sealed in isolation, never seeing that every life his warm hands quietly save costs him a piece of his own.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble meets The Green Mile.
About Everett
Everett Lowry writes literary fiction about the small towns of coastal Maine, and about the particular arithmetic of staying. Sons who take over a father’s boat. Widows who keep a Tuesday appointment for forty years past any obvious reason to. The people who inherit not just a house or a business but the specific silence that came with it, and spend a lifetime deciding what to do about that inheritance.
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