They saw 5.5 acres, with only a small amount a buildable footprint. What was most vexing to me about selling the house was that the new owners had no idea what they were getting. In the book, she describes the transfer - and why it was fraught enough to prompt a deeply felt memoir:
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To the New Owners is full of beguiling stories and memories, but at its heart it is a book about giving up a beloved thing - in this case, a home in which Blais spent many fine days. Blais is the author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, the story of an Amherst, Massachusetts girls high school basketball team, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. She contemplates privilege once again when she explores the ways affluence has changed Martha’s Vineyard.īlais, who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing while on the staff of the Miami Herald’s Tropic Magazine, is a professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she serves as Honors Director in Journalism.
Through the lens of a beloved house, Blais writes about her childhood, marriage, and motherhood, contrasting her early days with the privileged world into which she married- her father-in-law was Nicholas Katzenbach, a prominent lawyer who served as President Lyndon Johnson’s Attorney General. In the witty and charming To The New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir (Atlantic Monthly Press), Maddy Blais focuses on the attachment she developed to her in-laws’ Martha’s Vineyard home and the bonds she established there with friends and family.
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