One Way Bridge

Cathie Pelletier draws readers back to the beloved town of Mattagash, a seemingly quiet New England outpost in Maine. Yet Mattagash is anything but tranquil. While its citizens bicker publicly over small-town theft or their neighbors' offensive mailboxes, they privately struggle through deeper life issues: scandal, loss, failed ambitions, and the scars of war. Amazing pre-publication blurbs from Wally Lamb, Fannie Flagg, Richard Russo and others Pelletier is the winner of the New England Booksellers Award for Fiction and 2006 Paterson Prize for Fiction Author has strong bookseller connections, and the book has received enthusiastic pre-pub blurbs from indies