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" All during the decade of my thirties I went through spasms of guilt because I spent so much time writing , because I was n't like a good New England housewife and mother . At a Mexican coastal resort in the early 1940s , Shannon , a defrocked minister , finds his emotions tangled up between two women , Maxine , the earthy resort owner , and Hannah , a virginal New England spinster . All that in the only New England state that George Bush carried in the general election four years ago . As tensions flare , the novel builds to a horrific Halloween climax - - - the Salem witch trials meets Nazi Germany - - - which forces this quiet New England community to grapple with these long ignored issues . Former Patriots beat writer Jerome Solomon — on his Houston Chronicle blog — had some interesting words from an unidentified New England player .