Settling Twice

"A book of quiet reflection, of wistful regard, where revelations of a family offer us the whole life of a remarkable woman . . . a book to be grateful for." —Patrick Lane, author of There Is a Season

In a revelation of memory and unflinching insight, prompted by the death of her parents, author Deborah Joy Corey probes the complex bonds between family, lovers, and neighbors that shaped her sense of identity: then, as a girl growing up in rural New Brunswick, and now as a wife and mother living on the coast of Maine. With astonishing skill and delicacy, she weaves a story of faith and transcendence, of loyalty and regret, and shows us how––despite the passage of time and a world fraught with disillusion––wonder prevails and love sustains.

"I felt this one in my bones." —Monica Wood, bestselling author of How to Read a Book

"The writing is exquisite, the invitation into childhood terrain irresistible." —Marjorie Simmins, Atlantic Books Today

"Deborah Joy Corey's elegiac, meditative, Settling Twice: Lessons from Then and Now moves forward and backward in time, circling key moments in the author's life, but the end result is a satisfying map of the author's familial history." ––Tobias Carroll, Maine Sunday Telegram