South of Superior

The book is SOUTH OF SUPERIOR and the author is Ellen Airgood. Airgood lives in Grand Marais, Michigan, and has used her home as a template for McAllister, the isolated Upper Peninsula town that is the setting of her novel. Madeline Stone, the protagonist,comes to live in McAllister in response to a request from a woman she hardly knows. But that woman is the only link Madeline has to her birth family, and she can't resist the longing to know more about her roots. As Madeline navigates the rigors of her new environment, she meets characters who will eventually change her life. Though I enjoyed the tale, I never felt immersed in it; I never completely identified with Madeline.