7. Gail Godwin, Grief Cottage
《悲傷小屋》蓋氏?戈德溫

Marcus is 11 when his mother dies; he never knew his father. Soon he's living with his mother's eccentric aunt Charlotte in her South Carolina beach cottage. She's painting a house built in 1804 dubbed the Grief Cottage after a family died there during Hurricane Hazel. That summer Marcus becomes himself, with the help of Charlotte, who drinks wine throughout the day in her painting studio and her empathetic friend Lachicotte Hayes. Marcus's grief and confusion are salved by the ocean, the sea turtles nesting nearby, and the secrets he learns about his family. But under the surface he's floundering. Soon he is obsessed with a mysterious boy he secretly visits daily at Grief Cottage.  (Credit: Bloomsbury)
馬庫(kù)斯11歲時(shí)母親去世了，而他從來(lái)不知道父親是誰(shuí)。不久，他搬到南卡羅萊納州一處海灘邊的小屋，和母親的姑姑、性格古怪的夏洛特一起生活。夏洛特每天在畫(huà)室里喝酒，她畫(huà)了一座建于1804年的綽號(hào)叫“悲傷小屋”的房子。在颶風(fēng)黑茲爾來(lái)臨時(shí)，有一家人死在那里。那個(gè)夏天，馬庫(kù)斯在夏洛特和她善解人意的好友拉?？铺?海因斯的幫助下恢復(fù)正常，但他的內(nèi)心其實(shí)很慌亂。大海、附近筑巢的海龜、以及獲知家庭的秘密安撫了馬庫(kù)斯的悲傷和困惑。很快，他就迷上了一個(gè)神秘的男孩，每天偷偷到悲傷小屋探望他。（來(lái)源：布盧姆斯伯里出版社）