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One sunny morning in 1969, Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling Miami skyline in the distance, she meets the house's owner, Dennis DuVal—and a new future reveals itself.
Turning away from her quiet, predictable life back home, Frances moves to Miami to be with Dennis. Over time, she earns the confidence of his wild-at-heart sister and the approval of his oldest friend. Frances and Dennis marry and have a child—but rather than growing complacent about their good fortune, they continue to face the challenges of intimacy in the complicated city they call home.
With Stiltsville, Susanna Daniel weaves the beauty, violence, and humanity of Miami's coming-of-age with an enduring story of a marriage's beginning, maturity, and heartbreaking demise.
Co-winner of the 2011 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize
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Joan Soroka
reviewed Stiltsville on December 24, 2010
Stiltsville
This book was not what I expected at all. I was expecting light and fluffy. Instead, I found language that was clunky and ordinary and off putting. The first few pages I was disconcerted by the plainness of the story and the style of writing. But I quickly found that I wanted to read more. I wanted to know how Frances's story went. How did it all end? For me, it ended with a quiet contentedness about love and marriage, including my own.
I have often heard the phrase "marriage is hard" and it is a sentiment that I have never agreed with. If it's that hard you are married to the wrong person. This book captured, for me, the simplicity of a good marriage and the phases that it goes through over (hopefully) a long time. Sometimes you are just more into each other as a couple, or not as the case may be, and this ebbs and flows.
This is a love story, plain and simple. It is not grand or sweeping, it's everyday stuff. The ordinariness and clunkiness that I found so off putting in the early pages ultimately became the anchor for the book. This could be my life. It could be your life. In the end I cared very much about Frances and Dennis and their family and I shed a little tear when it was over. This book reminded me of the everyday beauty that surrounds us and the importance of all those people in my life who I love.
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