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Interval Ownership: New Tales from Edisto

Interval Ownership: New Tales from Edisto
By author: John Lane
Product Code: P757
ISBN: 9798897360505
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Thirteen owners rotate through a beach house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, four weeks a year, one week each season. They share a kitchen, a pool, a view of the ocean, and a set of storage lockers that nobody can agree on. John Lane's INTERVAL OWNERSHIP gives each owner a story. A singer-songwriter buries his mother and loses his father's approval in the same afternoon. A therapist buys back his favorite chair from a thrift shop and gives away the replacements to a passing kid on a bicycle. An old man appears at a hedge and asks, again and again, if the pool is public. A couple races back to the island to find a missing ring. Two college friends hunt fossils on a winter beach and meet a fisherman who turns out to be Jasper Johns. These are comic and melancholy stories about what happens when people pour their lives into a place they only partly own. Lane writes about marriage and money, fathers and sons, faith and skepticism, race and belonging, memory and erosion. The island endures. The owners come and go, and somebody always leaves the Old Bay seasoning open.
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Review by: George Singleton, author of YOU WANT MORE: SELECTED STORIES - June 11, 2026
"In John Lane's linked tales, INTERVAL OWNERSHIP, the main character might be the house, Shearwater, or the island, Edisto. Thirteen house owners meander through these stories, each with their own dreams and problems. The reader's confronted with philosophical, literary, environmental, ethical, even gustatory dilemmas. If you've dreamed of a vacation home,INTERVAL OWNERSHIP will make you reconsider."
Review by: Daniel Cross Turner, author of RIDING LIGHT: POEMS and editor of COAST LINES - June 11, 2026
"John Lane's latest is, to quote Howlin' Wolf, built for comfort and speed: captivating, well-told tales that coastal folks will appreciate."
Review by: Michel Stone, author of novels THE IGUANA TREE and BORDER CHILD - June 11, 2026
"John Lane's INTERVAL OWNERSHIP traces the threads that bind generations: family ties, unlikely friendships, the healing of old wounds, and the ongoing conversation between past and present. Lane explores themes of kinship, memory, racial and historical inheritance, and the solace found in the natural world. From a child who communes with animals and driftwood to adults learning to bear or shed their scars, these stories show how a landscape can shape us, steady us, and call us home. And through moments large and small, tender and surprising, they reveal how a single place can become a point of continuity, healing, and wonder for everyone who crosses the Dawhoo Bridge. Lane's vision, insight, and deep sense of place make this a collection readers will treasure."

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