SKYLAND Book Launch
Schedule
Fri, 08 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Water Street Bookstore | Exeter, NH
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Come celebrate the launch of SKYLAND and hear Ann Joslin Williams read from her second novel.ABOUT THE BOOK:
"An achingly lovely novel about what happens when an act of violence tears apart a family. Skyland shows us that we may be able to find our way back from the unthinkable—slowly and painfully, to be sure, but not without moments of beauty." —Ann Packer, author of Some Bright Nowhere
A deeply moving novel that illuminates the complex ways we survive the unthinkable and slowly, painfully, learn to live again.
When Celia is murdered by a troubled young man from across the street, her husband Henry and daughters Nora and Lucy are left to navigate the unthinkable in their small town of Kittery, Maine. Desperate to help his daughters heal, Henry sends the girls to spend the summer at Skyland Farm, a remote artists' retreat in the New Hampshire mountains run by his beloved cousin Franny.
But the girls, feeling abandoned, struggle to find their footing among the resident artists. Nora grapples with her complicated feelings about Blake, the young man who destroyed their lives, while forming a new bond with a young sculptor. Lucy, the sole witness to the murder, retreats into silence and the mysterious world of a painting above her bed. Back in Maine, Henry battles his own grief and faces his greatest test when he becomes entangled with Blake's alcoholic mother, threatening his twelve years of sobriety.
As the family struggles separately with their trauma, the buried details of that terrible day slowly surface. When Nora makes a desperate midnight drive home to confront her father, their journey becomes a reckoning that will either destroy what remains of their family or finally allow them to face their loss together.
Set against the rugged beauty of coastal Maine and the mountainous landscape of New Hampshire, Skyland reveals how art, nature, and unexpected friendships can slowly guide us back from the brink—and how families can find their way to one another even after the unthinkable.
RSVP at https://www.islandportpress.com/event-details/skyland-book-launch
PREORDER the book at https://waterstreetbooks.com/book/9781952143908 OR https://www.islandportpress.com/product-page/skyland
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Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St,Exeter, New Hampshire, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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