These Granite Islands
 
These Granite Islands is an arresting novel about a woman who, on her deathbed, recalls the haunting and fateful summer of 1936, a summer that forever changed her life. Sarah Stonich's debut novel, set on the Iron Range of Minnesota, is an intimate and gripping story of friendship, a portrait of marriage, and a meditation on the tragedy of loss. 
 
Author: Sarah Stonich
Published by: University of Minnesota Press, 2013; First published 2001
Format: Paperback, 310 pages