Maine, A Love Story

While MAINE, A Love Story by Blue Butterfield is full of the rich forest scents and wild-blueberry sweetness of Maine, it’s really a love story to and about the author’s family – her artist mother, her father maimed physically and emotionally by a car accident, her romance with her husband, her joys and sorrows watching her two sons grow up. The language is simple but graceful, telling her story in a series of smaller vignettes that can be read bit by bit or all at once as the reader prefers. Brilliantly-colored woodcuts enhance the stories, and become part of them as she tells how she learned to make them, and explains the process in paragraphs interwoven with her father’s tragedy.