2018 Fall Author Series - Meg Mitchell Moore

Meg Mitchell Moore
 
Join us Thursday, November 15 from 7:30-9:00 to hear local author Meg Mitchell Moore discuss her latest novel, The Captain’s Daughter (July 2017, Anchor Books). Ms. Moore received a B.A. from Providence College and a master’s degree in English Literature from New York University. She is the author of The Arrivals, So Far Away, and The Admissions. Before turning to fiction, Ms. Moore worked as a freelance journalist for a variety of business and consumer magazines. Today she lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with her husband and their three children, a new puppy, a lot of laundry, and a good amount of laughs.
 
Summary of the Book
 
When Eliza Barnes was growing up in the lobstering village of Little Harbor, Maine, she could haul a trap and row a skiff with the best of them—but she’d always known she’d leave that life behind. Now she’s settled in the high-society circle of an affluent Massachusetts town with her husband and two daughters. But when her father—a widowed lobsterman—injures himself in a boating accident, Eliza returns to her home to come to his aid. When she arrives in Maine, she discovers her father’s situation is more dire than he let on. Her homecoming is further complicated by the reemergence of her first love and the repercussions of their shared secret. Then Eliza meets Mary Brown, a seventeen-year-old local who is at a crossroads of her own, and Eliza can’t help but wonder what her life would have been like if she’d stayed. By turns poignant, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, The Captain’s Daughter is an unforgettable novel about the choices we make and the consequences we face in their wake.
 
Publisher
 
Anchor Books
 
ISBN
 
9781101971574
 
Retail Price
 
$16
 
Date of Publication
 
July 18, 2017