Hardcover. 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1987 Putnam. Light paper-clip indentations on about 10 pages near front. Very clean; pages bright; binding tight. Light edgewear to jacket. 224pp. Language: English. '[F]ollows the lives of an old woman whose last mission is to save her granddaughter's soul; a family torn apart by a wife's fears and a husband's desires; and a high school girl who comes to Martha's Vineyard against her will, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption.'--from the publisher.