About this Event
If you would prefer to buy your ticket by phone, you may call Wellesley Books at 781-431-1160.
About ticketing:
- Admission to the event is $5.
- To purchase the book with your admission, choose Admission + Book and we will waive your admission fee.
- If you decide to purchase the book at the event, we will discount your book purchase by $5.
Please note that you must purchase your copy of the book from Wellesley Books in order to have the author sign it at the event.
Please also note that we cannot issue ticket refunds within 48 hours of the event.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
"If you love the novels of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Rivers Siddons...you will love Little Great Island. This is one of those novels you will carry inside you forever." —Jenna Blum
ABOUT BE THE BUTTERFLY
The Be the Butterfly initiative invites audiences 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNERS
Julie Carrick Dalton is the Boston-based author of Waiting for the Night Song and The Last Beekeeper. She is the winner of the New Hampshire Writers' Project's People's Choice Award for Best Novel, and a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and the Siskiyou Prize for Environmental Literature. A former beekeeper and organic farmer, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of fiction in the age of climate crisis at universities, museums, and conferences nationally and internationally. Her writing has appeared in Orion, The MacGuffin, The Charles River Review, The Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, BusinessWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. She is on the faculty of Drexel University's Creative Writing MFA program and is an adjunct instructor at Tufts University where she teaches Climate Fiction & Activism. When she isn't reading or writing, you can usually find Julie skiing, swimming, kayaking, or working in her garden.
Karen Day is the award-winning author of three middle grade novels, all published by Wendy Lamb at Random House - Tall Tales, No Cream Puffs and A Million Miles from Boston. Her first novel for adults, I'll Stay (Kensington 2018), was a Publishers Weekly Starred review and Pick of the Week. It was also named to Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books 2018. In 2021, her short story, "The Cellar," won the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize and was published in the journal's 2022 fall issue. Karen has taught writing at Grub Street in Boston, and at various writing conferences across New England. She lives in Newton, MA, with her family.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley, United States
USD 6.24 to USD 24.42
