Stiltsville Susanna Daniel Fiction
	On Sale Date:	08/03/2010
	Print Run:	100,000
	Format:	Trade Paperback
		320 pgs.
	Price:	$24.99
	ISBN:	0061963070
	ISBN 13:	9780061963070
	Other Formats
	Ebook:	9780062005489

One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, 26-year-old Frances Ellerby discovers a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. For the Atlanta native, it’s the first time she’s been out on the open water, the first time she’s felt alive in months. Giddy with the freedom of this idyllic, foreign place, she meets the fair-haired Dennis DuVal, the careless yet lucky man with whom she will spend the next three decades. Over the years, they struggle with the vicissitudes of love and Florida’s weather, infidelity, parenthood, friendship, Hurricane Andrew, and debilitating illness—coming to terms, finally, with a life that doesn’t necessarily end happily-ever-after, but one which Frances wouldn’t trade for anything. In this knock-out debut, Susanna Daniel interweaves the tropical intensity, beauty, violence, and humanity of Miami as it comes of age with a marriage’s beginning, maturity, and heartbreaking demise.