Ellen Airgood is a diner manager in Michigan, and South of Superior is her debut novel. This is the kind of novel that reads fast. A lot happens while at the same time nothing really happens--it's one of those kind of stories. Chicago raised Madeline Stone still reels from the death of her beloved adoptive mother, Emmy, a year ago. Abandoned by her mother, rejected by her grandfather, who refused to raise her and from whom she remained estranged for the rest of his life, Madeline accepts an invitation from Gladys, her grandfather's girlfriend, and Glady's sister, Arbutus, to return to tiny McAllaster, Michigan, town of her birth, to assist in caring for Arbutus, who's become crippled by arthritis. McAllaster is a tiny, one street town on the coast of Lake Superior where less than 1000 people live year round. The natives struggle to make ends meet while the rich out of towners summer in mansions built on the lake shore that drive up taxes and drive out native...
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