Sara Orne Jewett was born in South Berwick, Maine, in 1849. Many of her best books are set in Maine. The Country of the Pointed Firs is a collection of linked stories that give a portrait of a seaport along the Maine coast.

I have vacationed for many years on an island in Rhode Island by the name of Block Island.  Reading this novel, I envisioned the bluffs and craggy rocks of Block Island. The book is as soothing as a lullaby, yet holds your interest with the cast of characters and their occupations. Since I am a gardener I enjoyed reading of Mrs. Almira Todd’s collecting of herbs and dispensing of them to the townspeople of Dunnett, Maine. If you love books that transport you to another time, and stories that enable you to come away with a sense of new lifelong “literary” friends, you will enjoy this book.

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