The Weight of Winter Author:Cathie Pelletier The wacky back country universe of Mattagash, Maine - a logging town of some 400 souls just north of nowhere - sprang to delightful life in Cathie Pelletier's first two novels. — Now as Mattagash struggles toward the end of the century, the end of the world also heaves into view. Amy Joy Lawler, last seen waiting at the altar for her feckless Fr... more »ench fiance, is now slipping into middle age, with married lover and sharp-tongued mother in tow. Once the queen of gossip, Sicily Lawler has passed the baton to two snowplow-driving supersleuths. The Crossroads tavern is under attack by Prissy Monihan and her cohorts for keeping most of the town male population cheerfully intoxicated while chronically unemployed.« less