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Name: The Face of the Waters
Author: Robert Silverberg

📘 The Face of the Waters by Robert Silverberg

Maude Chambliss, a nineteen‑year‑old bride from the South Carolina Low Country, arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband’s aristocratic family on the coast of Main. Her gypsy‑like beauty and impulsive nature make her feel like an outsider among the patrician colonists. Over the seasons she comes to cherish the community and its people, including her dark‑spirited husband Peter, her fragile children, a domineering mother‑in‑law, and the Maine native Micah Willis, who becomes her closest friend.

First publish date: August 1994

Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera

Authors: Robert Silverberg

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