Books: The Maytrees

Release Date: June 1
Author: Annie Dillard
Publisher: Harper Collins

Provincetown, the village at the thin curly tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, is the setting for an unconventional love triangle between three slacker locals: Toby Maytree, a local poet; his beautiful wife Lou Bigelow, and a third party who, for the sake of suspense, will go unnamed here. In her new short novel, Dillard beautifully describes both the pain of betrayal and the surprisingly tough bonds of loyalty between the three principals over the course of decades, and she expertly blends the ebb and flow of human events with the shifting tides and sand and weather of the cape itself.