These warm, insightful tales reveal the singular joys and challenges of moving from a city to a rural town and will resonate with anyone who dreams of downsizing and picking up to live alongside a lake and its denizens. Each chapter captures the nature of the North Shore and the ways in which everything and everyone is shaped by the Big Lake. Beryl Singleton Bissell, nationally renowned author of The Scent of God , shares her experience of life on Minnesota's North Shore of Lake Superior in this collection of essays that follows her journey to find her place in a small northern town.
