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   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) csobolak | Jun 1, 2014 |  Last Light over Carolina is set just up the road a tad in McClellanville. Used to be, most folks from off didn't know about this little fishing village, but it's gotten better known in these days when the southeastern coast is a tempting spot of others to vacation. Back in 1989 (September 21, to be exact) a hurricane called Hugo rolled in there, covering our entire state with its winds, rain, and floods. This book takes place nineteen years later, pretty much over the course of one day. It centers on a shrimper and his wife, playing out the events of the day against a backdrop of memories. I have to admit, that when I first saw the date of events in the novel, September 21, 2008, I knew exactly where I was that day (caring for my mother, after surgery), just as I knew exactly where I was on that fatefully day Hugo came a'callin'. Both dates changed my life, just as the events of the day in the novel changed the lives of Carolina and Bud. But, when bad things happen, people can often dig down into the well of their souls and come up with a courage they might not know they possessed. This is a gentle tale of two people, their marriage and their family. It is not a story of perfection, and in that, it is perfect. Mary Alice Monroe moves the reader along a single day, from first light of morning, to the last light as the sun sets on the Carolina shore. And in the course of that day, I learned a little more about shrimpers, fishing, a town called McClellanville, and my beloved lowcountry. (  ) bookczuk | Jul 24, 2013 | ) TeenieLee | Apr 3, 2013 |  ) mchwest | Dec 30, 2012 |  ) PegSwaney | Nov 11, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
Every woman in the lowcountry knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now, that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, the only man she's ever loved, is lost and alone somewhere in the vast Atlantic fishing grounds, with a storm gathering and last light falling. As the action unfolds on this one terrifying, illuminating day, Carolina and Bud Morrison look back across thirty years of love and loss, joy and sorrow. Carolina walked away from a well-to-do upbringing to marry Captain Bud Morrison. She embraced his extraordinary lifestyle by the sea and the customs of a historic shrimping village. Yet lately, hard times and the loneliness of long separations have driven them apart--and driven her to make a mistake that threatens to shatter their once-unbreakable bond forever. When Bud Morrison is overdue at the docks, the closeknit community rallies together to search for one of its own. But Carolina knows that it is their love that must somehow call him home, across miles of rough water and unspeakable memories. And she swears that if she is given one more chance--for love and for forgiveness--nothing will ever take her from this man's side again. In Last Light over Carolina, Mary Alice Monroe once again explores a vanishing feature of the southern coastline, the mysterious yet time-honored shrimping culture, in a convincing and compelling tale of an enduring marriage. No library descriptions found. 
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