Miranda Cowley Heller is the author of The Paper Palace, a novel set mostly on Cape Cod. The cabin Eleanor's family stays at is not a palace and is not made of paper. The place is over run with spiders and mice when they arriver every spring. There is a freshwater pond behind the house and the ocean in front of the house. Eleanor and her sister grew up with divorced parents and multiple step-parents. One July morning Eleanor (now aged 50) wakes up with a decision to make. Although in love with her husband and happy with her three children, she left the cabin last night and made love to her childhood sweetheart for the first time while their spouses chatted inside. Now what will she do? Stay with her husband or go to her childhood sweetheart? The story goes back and forth in time explaining why Eleanor made the decisions that she did. I enjoyed reading about childhood sweethearts.
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