When she was finishing the book, she moved into a loft on the top floor of her home to seal herself off from the rest of the world. In the story, Robinson’s protagonist lives in a small farmhouse on the coast of Maine, a setting she could easily imagine while writing in Northeast Harbor. Focused on addiction and its effect on a family, the book also received the 2008 Fiction Award from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. Her fourth novel, Cost, published in 2008, was recognized on several lists of the year’s best books, including The Washington Post’s, which named it one of the Five Best Fiction Books of the Year. “Sometimes I am there alone, and it is the most perfect time to work,” Robinson says while describing cold, snowy nights when she sits alone by a fire, looks out to the ocean, and writes. She often travels from her home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to Northeast Harbor and immerses herself in her writing. The author of six novels, three collections of short stories, and a biography of painter Georgia O’Keeffe, Robinson was dubbed “John Cheever’s heir apparent” by the New York Times Book Review for her astute, unflinching approach to the tragedies large and small that impact families. The light in Maine has a very powerful effect on me.” “That raking brilliant light I find so exciting and so exhilarating to see how it spans across the landscape and over the old bright clapboard houses, the rocks on the shore, and the birds. “The light is one of the things that strikes me when I come to Maine,” she says. It also became the muse for her first novel, Summer Light. Their coastal retreat quickly became a place to which Robinson and her dog would escape to in the winter months. Beginning in the late-1970s, Robinson and her husband rented a home in Northeast Harbor. Award-winning author Roxana Robinson refers to Maine as her paradise.
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