Trespass: A Novel by Grace Dane Mazur

by Grace Dane Mazur

Grace Dane Mazur's dark, sexy novel opens as a stranger, Grenville, bathes himself nude in Maggie Gifford's laundry sink, thus upsetting the balance of erotic tensions of a large and quirky family. Mazur's characters live along the margins in a coastal New England town. The narrator, Maggie's cousin Jake, is a gardener, ne'er-do-well, and mail-order minister, whose only predictable income is the remittance he gets to stay away from his proper Newport family. Secretive encounters lead through a web of trespasses until the bonds which have been broken are solidly and luminously rebuilt.

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful descriptions - good but not fantastic.

[Beverly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book quite a lot, less for the details of the story and more for the feelings that the writing evoked. Lots of crazy things happened and yet the book created an almost palpable calm within me.
Oh, and it's very nice to read a book by someone you've met recently. It allows you a feeling of perhaps really knowing them.

[Claire · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn't get over the multiple sexual "eww" factors. I found the awkward incest distracting. The oddity of some of the plot twists seemed to occur for the sake of oddity, and were not organic to the story.

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

gorgeous writing. deliberately slow pace, luxurious. wonderful descriptions of nature. secret installation in the woods reminded me of bernhard's correction. dark and complex.