Join Kate Woodworth at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, ME and Commit to Being the Butterfly
“A meditation on loss and a vibrant call to action, Little Great Island is, like the waters around Maine’s coast, both beautiful and nourishing.”
—Julie Gerstenblatt, author of Daughters of Nantucket
Print: A Bookstore will be hosting Kate Woodworth, author of new novel Little Great Island, alongside Nick Fuller Googins and Kate Olson, PhD for a book talk. Little Great Island tells a personal love story between two very different people who live on a small Maine island where the lobster fishing is drying up and with it, a generations-old way of life. Enter the conflict between the year-round and the summer residents who must wrestle over what to do to preserve the island. The book talks will be followed by Woodworth’s invitation to claim some small environmental action to make a difference in a world of dramatic climate change through her Be the Butterfly initiative.
Books will be available to purchase at the event.
About Little Great Island:
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 she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s 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 island…from 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.
About Kate Woodworth:
Kate Woodworth is the author of the novel Racing Into the Dark (EP Dutton, 1989), hailed as “A compelling exploration of mental illness” by Booklist and as an “auspicious debut” by Publishers Weekly. Her short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah and other literary journals. A retired medical writer in addition to fiction writer, she has received numerous awards and recognition for her writing, including a Pushcart Prize nomination, multiple Utah Arts Council and Dalton Pen Communication Awards, and an International Association of Business Communicators finalist recognition. She received her MFA from Boston University.
