With her ex-husband imprisoned for embezzlement, the pampered Virginia Fleetman relocates to an inherited mountainside property expecting to live in a newly-finished vacation home. Instead she finds a half-finished foundation with the builder Drew Tippet and her twelve-year-old daughter Cody living inside. Drew has been planning a new life too, but after the checks stopped coming, she is forced to make the basement a refuge. When Virginia orders Drew and her daughter out, a cascade of life-altering events inextricably binds them together. Cody's visions and premonitions, after nearly drowning, make her wonder if anyone, including her own mother, believes her. Drew, with a broken back and ankle--and a worsening dependence on pain medication--struggles to forgive herself. Above all, if they're to have a home before winter, all three must work together to build a house atop the foundation. "Tiny House, Big Mountain" is a coming-of-age novel set in the fictional town of Brookway, Vermont where magical realism is woven with betrayal, addiction, and recovery through the bonds of friendship, family, and community.
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Book One in the "Tales from the Green Mountains" series. Author Patrick Gillespie can be found on his website poemshape.wordpress.com