Michael Parker's The Watery Part of the World
In this novel, Parker weaves together two true pieces of history--in the early 1800s, Aaron Burr's daughter disappeared while sailing from South Carolina to New York, and in 1970, the last three residents of an NC island finally left. In Parker's version, two of those three are Burr's great-great-etc-granddaughters, living a somewhat eccentric elderly life with only an even more elderly black man as the only other person around. I will admit that I was much more interested in the historical pieces (though a lot of narrative tension didn't pan out for me) and now want to read more about Theodosia Burr. Anyway, it was another appropriate beach read, since a lot of it takes place on Nag's Head. B/B+.
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