Castine novelist pens tale of racial tensions in fictional Maine town

Castine novelist pens tale of racial tensions in fictional Maine town

“When she thought of jumping the gun, she thought of the gun that killed their son. He removed his arm that had stayed around her until then. She was a little breathless as well. He chose not to look at her, but rather to look down at his hands, when he said, ‘The Land of Cockaigne.’” ******* In his latest novel, Land of Cockaigne, Jeffrey Lewis approaches the dynamics of locals and those from out of state in the imagined Maine community of Snee…