The stories of Christopher Tilghman bring to life the trials and bonds of American families, set against the encroached-upon, yet still-expansive landscapes of our continent. "Radiant. . . . a gifted writer, blessed with an instinctual feel for the e...
A wealthy family takes up residence at their crumbling estate on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, where their love for one another begins to drift toward destruction when they stop communicating. Reprint....
A collection of tales centered around the Chesapeake Bay area offers insights and fresh truths about our shared humanity, following a man who loses his family when seeking a job, a couple who cope with a terrible tragedy, and more. Reprint. 15,000 fi...
With the deep emotion and insight of “a true storyteller” (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times), Christopher Tilghman, the author of the acclaimed Mason’s Retreat and In a Father’s Place, has written a powerful new novel of men and women, fathers...
A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and t...
A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1894, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the Languedoc Twenty-three years after t...
The culmination of Christopher Tilghman’s great Chesapeake saga, a story spanning four centuries of an American family.It is the Fourth of July 2019, and the Mason family is gathering at their historic Chesapeake farm, Mason’s Retreat. It isn’t...