The End of the Point, Elizabeth Graver
The End of the Point, Elizabeth Graver
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The End of the Point
A Novel

Author: Elizabeth Graver

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 13 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 04/22/2014

Synopsis

A place out of time, Ashaunt Point—a tiny finger of land jutting into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts—has provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who summer along its remote, rocky shore. But in 1942, the U.S. Army arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change. That summer, the two older Porter girls—teenagers Helen and Dossie—run wild. The children's Scottish nurse, Bea, falls in love. And youngest daughter Janie is entangled in an incident that cuts the season short and haunts the family for years to come.As the decades pass, Helen and then her son Charlie return to the Point, seeking refuge from the chaos of rapidly changing times. But Ashaunt is not entirely removed from events unfolding beyond its borders. Neither Charlie nor his mother can escape the long shadow of history—Vietnam, the bitterly disputed real estate development of the Point, economic misfortune, illness, and tragedy.An unforgettable portrait of one family's journey through the second half of the twentieth century, The End of the Point artfully probes the hairline fractures hidden beneath the surface of our lives and traces the fragile and enduring bonds that connect us. With subtlety and grace, Elizabeth Graver illuminates the powerful legacy of family and place, exploring what we are born into, what we pass down, preserve, cast off or willingly set free.

About Elizabeth Graver

Elizabeth Graver is the author of the novels Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling; her short story collection Have You Seen Me? won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. She is the mother of two daughters, and teaches English and creative writing at Boston College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lori L on March 05, 2013

The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver is a family saga that basically covers three generations, with the connection being their summers spent at the coast in Ashaunt, Massachusetts. Graver opens the novel with a brief passage about the arrival of the first Europeans to the point. Then she proceed......more

Goodreads review by nomadreader (Carrie D-L) on March 10, 2013

(originally published at [URL not allowed]) The basics:Spanning three generations of the Porter family and fifty years of their relationships with their hired help, The End of the Point focuses on the family at four different times in history, beginning in the 1950's. Much of the novel......more

Goodreads review by Margerywieder on June 02, 2013

I really enjoyed this book. It's a family saga that focuses on a few members of a large extended family and moves back and forth in time a bit. I guess some people aren't comfortable with that, but for me, it provides a richness that many more plot-driven novels don't. Watching characters grow from......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on March 11, 2013

"On the point you can still find bones - fox sculls, rabbit femurs, porpoise vertebrae, and, on the shore in the crevice between two hard-lodged stones, a milk tooth lost by a child no longer a child." A tale spanning generations, The End of the Point immerses the reader in a specific geographic lo......more

Goodreads review by (Lonestarlibrarian) Keddy Ann on April 13, 2013

A touch of Upstairs Downstairs here because one of the main story lines follows a long-serving Scottish nanny as well as generations of the family she serves, set largely at their summer house on Ashaunt Point in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Time period: from World War II thru to more present times.......more

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