Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski

Please join us on Tuesday May 14 for a special event featuring Alina Grabowski to celebrate the launch of her debut novel Women and Children First!

Nashquitten MA is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive full of locals who have run the town’s industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter a teacher her student a best friend her confidante the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast secrets are buried deeper. Some are left to pick up the pieces while others turn their backs and all the while a truth about that dreadful night begins to emerge.

Alina Grabowski grew up in coastal Massachusetts and holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University. Her writing has appeared in Story The Masters Review Joyland The Adroit Journal and Day One. She has received scholarships from Aspen Summer Words the Sewanee Writers’ Conference the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. She lives in Austin Texas. 

Host or Publisher Longfellow Books