South of Superior Hardcover - 2011

Summary

Media reviews

"South of Superior is a story about home, what people are willing to fight for, the weight of friendships and continued ambition. . . . Ellen Airgood, who has spent the last 19 years in the Upper Peninsula, knows small-town life and portrays its positive and negative aspects with affection and feeling. Readers will tear through this engrossing story."
-Bookpage.com

"Madeline Stone goes back to her roots in rural Michigan and finds the missing bits of herself, in a heartwarming . . . debut."
-Kirkus

"Madeline Stone (a career diner waitress, as her creator once was) has just lost her adoptive mother when she is summoned back to the Michigan town of her birth-and abandonment. A grandfather's girlfriend and a prison cook who quotes Nietzsche help Madeline uncover her family's troubled past (and chart a hopeful future) in this offbeat debut."
-AARP

"Airgood's engaging debut is the novel, brimming with quirky characters, that everyone who moves to a small, tightly knit town imagines he or she might someday write."
-Booklist

"I was captivated by Ms. Airgood's setting and her characters, they're pitch pefect. South of Superior is a wonderful debut novel. I couldn't get the story out of my mind even weeks after I put it down. It was that haunting, that heartfelt. Brava!"
-Lesley Kagan, author of Whistling in the Dark

"A heartfelt ode to the simpler things in life. You'll be delighted and embraced by the strong willed characters and the small town setting and when you're finished you'll want to go embrace the people in your own circle."
-Tiffany Baker, author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

"South of Superior is a charming story where hardships forge character, friendships endure for decades, and love unfolds in unusual ways. Most of all it is a celebration of the ever-surprising strengths of the human spirit."
-Beth Hoffman, New York Times-bestselling author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

"A story that is peculiarly American, brimming with lessons about compassion and community. South of Superior is not to be forgotten."
-Connie May Fowler, author of Before Women Had WingsEND