Kate Woodworth Brings Little Great Island to Dedham Public Library

Join Kate Woodworth at The Dedham Public Library on Wednesday, June 11, at 6:30 pm for a talk about her novel of love, community, and climate change on a small Maine island and how everyone can “Be the Be the Butterfly” by performing one small act to save the planet.

DEDHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY
43 Church St.
Dedham, MA 02026

For more information, please visit the library’s events page here.

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.