The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 27th, 2005
The Holocaust permeates this loving, carefully written saga of an American family bewildered by the larger world. Set in Leeway Cottage, a house in Maine that starts as a summer retreat and ends as a year-round domestic matrix, Beth Gutcheon's novel is a symphonic exploration of the ties that bind and just as often rend.
The book tracks the Brant family, so American, and the Moss family, so Danish, through more than six decades. On the surface, it is about an American dynasty, but its purview is more universal. Its subtext is Danish resistance to the Nazis. Denmark, unlike many of its neighbo...
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