A Reading from New Fiction: Steven Raichlen on Island Apart, Michael Morris on Man in the Blue Moon and Danielle Sosin on The Long-Shining Waters
Saturday, Nov. 17, 3:00 p.m., Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Steven Raichlen
Steven Raichlen is the author of Planet Barbecue and How to Grill. So perhaps it’s no surprise that his novel, Island Apart (Forge Books, $24,99) combines romance, history, travel, crime, and yes—really good food. Claire Doheney, recovering from a serious illness, agrees to house-sit in an oceanfront mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. The New York book editor hopes to find solace, strength, and calm. Then she meets a mysterious man the locals call the Hermit, with whom she shares a passion for cooking that becomes something more. But Claire’s new friend has a terrible secret that threatens to drive them apart forever. Translated into 15 languages, Raichlen's books have won 5 James Beard Awards and 3 IACP-Julia Child Awards and have sold more than 4 million copies.
Michael Morris
Things are not as they appear in Michael Morris’s novel Man in the Blue Moon (Tyndale, $19.99). Set in hardscrabble Florida during World War I, a woman trusts a mysterious man who offers to help her save her land and her family. “Morris’s narrative is subtle and supple, with overtones of the wry Southernisms of Flannery O’Connor . . .”—Publishers Weekly. Morris is a fifth generation Floridian and the author of the award winning novel, A Place Called Wiregrass, and Slow Way Home.
Danielle Sosin
The Long-Shining Waters (Milkweed Editions, $16.00) is Danielle Sosin’s debut novel set in the great North Country of Lake Superior. The story portrays the lives of women separated by centuries and circumstance, yet connected across time by the place they inhabit. “You don’t see writing like this often, so infused with an intimate relationship to nature . . .”—Los Angeles Times. Sosin is the author of Garden Primitives, a collection of stories. Her fiction has been featured in the Alaska Quarterly Review, and has been recorded for National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and Iowa Public Radio’s Live From Prairie Lights.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8301 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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