A sharp, intimate portrait of a marriage under pressure, Pete and Alice in Maine captures the claustrophobia and beauty of pandemic life with unflinching honesty.
A pandemic escape to Maine becomes a marriage under a microscope. Shetterly’s unflinching novel captures a couple fleeing Brooklyn only to confront every unspoken crack in their relationship. Sharp, intimate, and beautifully unsettling—perfect for fans of Fleishman Is in Trouble. This one lingers like salt air.
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When the world shut down, where did you go? For Pete and Alice, the answer was Maine—a place meant to be refuge, but one that would test everything they thought they knew about their marriage, their family, and themselves.
Caitlin Shetterly’s Pete and Alice in Maine is a sharp, intimate portrait of a couple fleeing pandemic-era Brooklyn for the rocky coast of Maine. What begins as an escape becomes something far more complicated: a reckoning. Pete, a musician whose career has stalled, and Alice, a designer struggling to hold their family together, arrive with their children at a borrowed house by the sea. But isolation doesn’t bring clarity—it magnifies every crack, every unspoken resentment, every question they’ve been too busy to ask.
Shetterly writes with unflinching honesty about modern marriage, class tensions, and the myth of the fresh start. Her prose is both tender and unsettling, capturing the beauty of the Maine landscape alongside the claustrophobia of being trapped—by circumstance, by expectation, by each other. This is a novel that lingers, like salt air on your skin.
Perfect for readers who loved Fleishman Is in Trouble or The Guest, this hardcover edition is a story about what happens when you can’t run from yourself—even when you’ve run all the way to the edge of the sea.
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A sharp, intimate portrait of a marriage under pressure, Pete and Alice in Maine captures the claustrophobia and beauty of pandemic life with unflinching honesty.
Shetterly's novel is a piercing examination of a marriage in crisis, set against the backdrop of early pandemic uncertainty.
A deeply felt exploration of what happens when escape becomes entrapment. Shetterly writes with precision and empathy about the fault lines in modern marriage.
Shetterly captures the pandemic's strange mix of intimacy and isolation with remarkable clarity. A timely and affecting novel.
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