In Melanie Oates’s Sweet Angel Baby, a small fishing town rests calmly against the roiling and raging Labrador Sea. Everything moves with the grain in town — if you grow up here, you either move away or stay forever, marrying your high school sweetheart and aging into your parents, maybe with a bigger and more expensive house. You go to church diligently, and when developers from the city threaten to buy the land the church sits on, you organize a fundraiser so that the church can buy the land it rests on. Life in the town stays small and the same,

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