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Are you ready for the biggest book of our Spring 2025 season? 🦞
Published 4 months ago • 2 min read
New release from Sibylline Press today!
“Little Great Island is an extraordinary achievement and a pure pleasure to read.”
—Ha Jin, National Book Award winning author of Waiting
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Fiction | Trade paper $21 | ISBN: 9781960573902
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.
“The power of community and connection in the face of climate change is explored masterfully in this beautiful novel. Little Great Island captures the fragile ecosystems of both our regions and our relationships and how resourcefulness can help heal both.”
—Marjan Kamali, bestselling author of The Stationery Shop and The Lion Women of Tehran
“An uplifting and grown-up novel in which two lost souls find love and purpose.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Put Anthony Doerr’s The Shell Collector, John Banville’s The Sea, and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge into a mixer and out comes Kate Woodworth’s deeply beautiful Little Great Island. With stunning prose and heart-achingly empathetic characters, Woodworth’s story of perseverance amidst change and loss is perfect for our turbulent, changing times.”
—Sophie Powell, author of The Mushroom Man​ ​
About the Author
Kate Woodworth's short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, and other literary journals, and her essays on the craft of climate fiction have been published by the Climate Fiction Writers League. Woodworth has received numerous awards and recognition for her writing, including a Pushcart Prize nomination, and multiple Utah Arts Council and Dalton Pen Communication Awards. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her first novel, Racing Into the Dark, was hailed as "a compelling exploration of mental illness" by Booklist and as an "auspicious debut" by Publishers Weekly.
We can't wait for this book tour with a conscience to begin. 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.
Tuesday, May 6 – 6:30pm
LAUNCH EVENT: Celebrate the Release of Little Great Island at Porter Square Books (Cambridge Edition)
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