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Farm boy Waldo Potter strives to save his father's impoverished upstate New York acreage as drums of war beat. When his Uncle Charles takes him under his wing, Waldo must navigate family resentments and tragic twists of fate at home and at the seat of war. By the Shores of Solon Pond captures the joys and hardships of rural life and is a tribute to America's rural heritage, but, most of all, it is a tribute to one young man's sacrificial love for his family.

From the outset, Waldo suffers, under the yoke of his sad family, a kind of entrapment in a life of struggle and impossible challenges, caused mainly by the sloth of Waldo's father. Of all the farms in the vicinity, his is the saddest and least productive even though he has three sons and a devoted wife.

After many failures and humiliations, Waldo is quick to join the army to fight in the Civil War, getting a shocking view of the wider world and a new perspective on his family and their situation in this poignant coming-of-age story.

• Adrienne Morris
• Published 2023 October 2nd by Middlemay Farm (first published 2023 October 2nd)
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