Kate Woodworth Talk & Signing at River Bend Bookshop in West Hartford, CT
Join Trinity College alumna Kate Woodworth at River Bend Bookshop in West Hartford on July 10th at 6PM for a talk and signing of her acclaimed climate fiction novel, Little Great Island.
This stop at River Bend Bookshop is a part of her book tour with a conscience as Kate Woodworth, author of Little Great Island: A Novel, launches her Be the Butterfly tour spanning six months in five states. The tour celebrates her beautifully crafted fiction that tells a love story set on a small New England island where the lobster fishing is drying up and, with it, a way of life. The community of seasonal and year-round residents must find a way forward, but conflicting visions take hold as everyone fights for their own view of the future. The Be the Butterfly book tour will include more than 15 author book events, featuring Kate and other climate writers of note. Environmental nonprofits will also be on hand at many events as part of the Be the Butterfly initiative, and audiences are invited to participate by claiming some small action to make a difference in a world of dramatic climate change. Be the Butterfly refers to the idea that, like a butterfly flapping its wings, one small action can affect the greater whole.
EVENT LOCATION:
River Bend Bookshop
161 Park Road
West Hartford, CT
Books will be available to purchase at the event. For more information, please visit River Bend Bookshop’s site 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.
