TY - BOOK AU - Duffy,Lisa TI - The salt house: a novel SN - 9781501156557 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Touchstone KW - Families KW - Maine KW - Fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - gsafd N2 - In the coastal town of Alden, Maine, Hope and Jack Kelly seem to have it all: a beautiful family, a growing lobster business, and the Salt House - a dilapidated oceanfront cottage they are renovating into their dream home. But tragedy strikes when their young daughter doesn't wake up from her afternoon nap. A year later, each member of the Kelly family navigates the world on their own private island of grief. Hope is unable to let go of her daughter's ashes, and Jack works himself to exhaustion to avoid his crumbling marriage. Their remaining daughters struggle with the growing pains of living without their youngest sister while watching their parents fall apart. Emotions ignite when Jack's old rival, Ryland Finn, comes back to town with his family. As Finn threatens Jack's fishing territory, the Kelly family is propelled toward circumstances that will either tear them apart or bring them back together. ER -