Description
On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and love. After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up-a place she swore shed never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the islands summer residents, now back himself to sell his familys summer home. Mari and Harrys lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the islandfrom generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies.
Little Great Island Illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.
An extraordinary achievement and a pure pleasure to read.
-Ha Jin, National Book Award winner of Waiting
I loved, loved, loved this book. About good people and bad decisions, small
towns and big corporations, this is also a novel about how deep love-for
others and for our planet-can evolve. And, if we are lucky, heal.
-Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Days of Wonder
If you love the novels of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Rivers Siddonsyou will
love Little Great Island. This is one of those novels you will carry inside you
forever.
-Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family
Author: Kate Woodworth
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sibylline Press
Published: 05/06/2025
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.32w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781960573902
Language: English
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