historical fiction

Shutter Island

Set in Massachusettts, Set in the 1950s | | Leave a Comment

Set in 1954, Dennis Lehane’s psychological thriller Shutter Island follows U.S. Marshal Edward “Teddy” Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, as they arrive at Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on a remote island in Boston Harbor. Their mission is to investigate the impossible disappearance of patient Rachel Solando, who vanished from a locked […]

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Tinkers

New England-based Historical Fiction, Set in Massachusettts | | Leave a Comment

Tinkers, written in 2009, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel by Paul Harding. It’s a lyrical, meditative exploration of memory, mortality, and the generational bonds between a dying man and his itinerant father. The narrative is not strictly linear, instead functioning as a collection of fragmented memories and sensory experiences that collapse the constraints of

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