Join the Newport Public Library on Saturday July 25th at 2pm as Kate Woodworth discusses her new book, Little Great Island.
On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and love.
After offending the powerful pastor of the cult where she’s lived for a decade, Mari McGavin must 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.
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Kate Woodworth is the award-winning author of the novels Little Great
Island and Racing into the Dark and the creative force behind the
grassroots climate change initiative, Be the Butterfly, that invites
everyone to perform one small act or behavioral change to help mitigate
climate change.
A passionate lover of the natural world, Kate writes about the impact of
climate change on our food supply on her Substack, “Food in the Time of
Climate Change.” She has appeared on C-Span2 Book TV; Good Morning,
Utah; NPR’s Maine Calling; and Good Day, Maine, and her essays on
climate fiction and the role of fiction writers in the climate discourse
have been published by the Climate Fiction Writers League.
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For more information, contact the library at info@newportlibraryri.org or 401-847-8720 ext. 208.