
Odyssey Bookshop to Host Kate Woodworth in South Hadley, MA
On September 9th at 7pm, Odyssey Bookshop will be hosting Kate Woodworth, author of new novel Little Great Island, alongside Olivia Aguilar PhD, Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke and Rebekah Cornwall, Conservation Administration/Planner and Tree Warden for South Hadley to talk about how all of us can make a positive difference in climate change.
Books will be available to purchase at the event.
For more information on the event, please visit Odyssey Bookshop’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.
