{"title":"Christopher Tilghman","description":"Christopher Tilghman is the author of two short-story collections, In a Father's Place and The Way People Run, and four previous novels, including Thomas and Beal in the Midi, The Right-Hand Shore, and Mason's Retreat, which recount the connected stories of the Mason and Bayly families. He lives with his wife, the novelist Caroline Preston, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in Centreville, Maryland.","products":[{"product_id":"on-the-tobacco-coast-paperback","title":"On the Tobacco Coast - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe culmination of Christopher Tilghman's great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering at their historic Chesapeake farm, Mason's Retreat. It isn't everyone's favorite party, but Harry Mason has once again goaded his wife, Kate, and their children into hosting a celebratory dinner. Their oldest, Rosalie, is having trouble with her marriage; the youngest, Ethan, is in the throes of a fitful first relationship. In between, Eleanor despairs over her stalled novel, a fictionalized memoir of the wife of the first Mason settler, who landed there in 1659. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKate, recovering from a second round of chemotherapy, is at the center of this ritual of remembrance. Tart and candid, she asks her husband, \"What crime against humanity did your family \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e commit on that land?\" And so it is more or less inevitable that when the clan, joined by a cast of neighbors and French cousins, sits down for dinner, the question of how they should think and feel about their past comes to the fore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with irony and deep insight, \u003ci\u003eOn the Tobacco Coast \u003c\/i\u003eis Christopher Tilghman's concluding meditation on the themes of his novels about this ancestral monument: pride and shame in its long history, the persistence of family stories, race and privilege, the enigmas and customs of regions. It reflects on the state of America today, with its battles over its own history and efforts to reckon with the wrongs of the past while looking forward to an uncertain, more just future.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103196287199,"sku":"9781250371843","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LCxUwYfaEy9781250371843.webp?v=1781090470"},{"product_id":"masons-retreat-paperback","title":"Mason's Retreat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1936, and the world is on the brink of war. American expatriot Edward Mason, owner of a failing machine factory, is fighting more private battles. In the face of defeat, he abandons his adopted home in England in order to reclaim his inheritance on Maryland's Eastern Shore---a ruinous, thousand-acre estate known ominously as Mason's Retreat. Edward, his wife, Edith, and their two young sons struggle to adjust to life in this strange and storied place. But with war drawing closer, England's hasty rearmament offers Edward a chance to revive the factory, and he returns alone to lead his company. Meanwhile, his wife and sons are left to make their own fortunes. 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