The Cape Ann: A Novel - Softcover

"The Cape Ann is the first-person story of a child's loss of innocence, of a growing awareness of just how complex life can be."
--Washington Post Book World

"The childish narrator is sweet and touching, without being sappy, and we believe her every recollection of life in a small Minnesota town at the end of the Depression."
--New York Times Book Review

"Sullivan has written a fascinating, original novel."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Funny, sensible, at times achingly sad ... Sullivan leads us into the heart of an American childhood."--Chicago Tribune

A disarmingly involving portrait of a family struggling to stay together through the Great Depression, The Cape Ann is an unforgettable story of life from a child’s-eye view.

Lark Erhardt, the six-year-old narrator of The Cape Ann, and her fiercely independent mother dream of owning their own house; they have their hearts set on the Cape Ann, chosen from a house catalog. But when Lark’s father’s gambling threatens the down payment her mother has worked so hard to save, Lark’s mother takes matters into her own indomitable hands.