Mackinac Island is on the Great Lakes in the American Midwest. Just nine miles round, it has golf courses, expensive restaurants, no cars & plenty of rich people. & for the summer of 2000, it has Bell, a student, employed to serve the wealthy. Bell & her fellow waiters & waitresses sample the delights of this earthly paradise: luxurious yachts, alcohol, horse-drawn carriages; & they can't help but come to know each other intimately. But this knowledge comes at a price. For they have each carried with them secrets from the outside world that will not be left behind... This is a superb debut which offers an exquisitely distilled exploration of North American material & spiritual values
- & equally
- a riveting story of love, betrayal & survival.