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In novel 'The Right-Hand Shore,' past is a burden
"The Right-Hand Shore" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Christopher Tilghman: "A place like this holds history," observes Wyatt Bayly, the new master of a vast Eastern Shore estate known as the Retreat. "It drives you back into the past just living here."In a different context, a young girl named Beal, descended from slaves on the place, tries to move beyond old customs and laments, "We don't care about