The Road to Dalton

"The fictional Dalton, a town in northern Maine’s Aroostook County, is the setting for this tender novel and its quiet and complicated characters. Richard and Trudy Haskell are married, and while Richard, the town doctor, knows everyone’s secrets, he cannot share those or much else with Trudy, who is preoccupied with her librarian job and her romance with Bev, who is married to Bill. The respective couples’ children are each struggling in different ways, as are the town’s other inhabitants. Via an intricate web of familial and neighborly relationships, Shannon Bowring brings to life the dramas of this politely distant yet loving community."