{"product_id":"haven-point-a-novel-1","title":"Haven Point A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The book equivalent of a beach getaway.\"\u003ci\u003e—PopSugar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning debut.\"\u003ci\u003e—BookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe instant national bestseller about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Beatriz Williams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1944: \u003c\/b\u003eMaren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort––and to see the world beyond her family’s cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she’s swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1970: \u003c\/b\u003eAs the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they don’t approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests––and in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2008: \u003c\/b\u003eAnnie’s daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother’s ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie’s view of Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place––and the people––snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver seven decades of a changing America, through wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Virginia Hume's \u003ci\u003eHaven Point\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Bulk","offers":[{"title":"Used \/ 9781250266545-001","offer_id":43830996697149,"sku":"9781250266545-001","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/3580383482633.jpg?v=1792150664","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/haven-point-a-novel-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}