Settled on the Cranberry Coast (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Byers
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1990's
- Setting: Various beach towns on the Washington State coast
- Principal Characters: Eddie, Jodie, Rosie, Hannah
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Single parents or single-parent families, Single people, 1990’s, Beaches or seashores, Retirement, Happiness, Washington
- Locales: Washington
The Story
Affirming that it is never too late to find happiness, “Settled on the Cranberry Coast” is a mellow, unsentimental story about Eddie, a middle-aged, single high school history teacher who has just retired and who runs into Rosie, a single woman on whom he once had a crush. When Eddie and Rosie were in high school, they did not run in the same crowd. She is half Indian and hung around with rough guys who drove pickups and wore leather jackets. Eddie lost sight of her after high school. He went to college in the East and lived for a few years with a woman he thought...
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