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The Country of the Pointed Firs
A summer in a tiny Maine town where everyone is a little lonely and nobody is unloved. 🌲🌊
Who it's for
The book moves at the pace of a quiet summer, so the reading experience itself is calming, a kind of decompression.
Lonely→Calm
Feelings it meets
What it is
Sarah Orne Jewett's 1896 book is a series of loosely connected sketches set in Dunnet Landing, a fictional fishing village on the Maine coast. An unnamed writer from Boston spends a summer there, lodging with Almira Todd, a widow and local herbalist, and their friendship deepens over the season.
Where to find it
Public domain in the US; free on Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks, with free LibriVox audiobooks. In print (e.g. Dover, Penguin, Library of America) and in libraries.
Before you start
Age: Ages 12+
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XIX. A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confe
