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SUMMARY:Susan Donovan Bernhard: WESTERLY
DESCRIPTION:A Maine Irish Author Event\nSunday\, September 27th\, 2026\n3:00pm\nJoin us on Sunday\, September 27th for a lovely afternoon of conversation with bestselling author Susan Donovan Bernhard! \nSusan will discuss her novel WESTERLY in conversation with Louise Miller\, of A CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING and THE LATE BLOOMER’S CLUB. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing at the event\, courtesy of Perkins Cove Bookshop. \n  \nAbout WESTERLY:\nIn an unforgettable saga of survival\, motherhood\, sisterhood\, and the secrets that haunt us\, one desperate decision creates a fault line that spans decades and threatens to break a family wide open. \nIn 1946\, two German sisters\, child refugees in a program dubbed Operation Shamrock\, arrive in West Cork\, Ireland to live in foster care while Europe recovers from war. Nearly fifty years later\, on a fateful day in a bustling Maine farmhouse\, an Irish newspaper clipping threatens to unravel Faye Sullivan’s carefully constructed life with husband William and daughters Maeve and Molly\, a life already on the brink of collapse. \nFrom Germany to Ireland to coastal Maine\, this tender family saga explores identity\, reconciliation\, and the true meaning of home. \nTo purchase in advance\, please visit Perkins Cove Bookshop in Ogunquit or head to https://www.susanbernhard.com/westerly \n\n\n\nAbout Susan Donovan Bernhard:\n \nSusan Donovan Bernhard is the bestselling author of the novels Westerly and Winter Loon\, which won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient\, a GrubStreet Novel Incubator program graduate\, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland\, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana and graduated from the University of Maryland. When she’s not traveling\, she lives and writes in Massachusetts. Learn more at https://www.susandonovanbernhard.com/ \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Louise Miller: \nLouise Miller is the author of THE CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING and THE LATE BLOOMERS’ CLUB. In addition to being a novelist\, she is a professional pastry chef\, an art school dropout\, a certified field naturalist\, an old-time banjo player\, an obsessive moviegoer\, a meditation enthusiast and an amateur flower gardener. Louise lives in Boston\, MA\, where she lives with her partner and an assortment of cats. Learn more at http://www.louisemiller.net\n \n  \n 
URL:https://maineirish.com/event/susan-donovan-bernhard-westerly/
LOCATION:Maine Irish Heritage Center\, 34 Gray St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mary Beth Keane: Whale Harbor
DESCRIPTION:A Maine Irish Author Event with Print: A Bookstore\nThursday\, November 12th\, 2026\n7:00 PM\nJoin us on Thursday\, November 12th for an evening of conversation with New York Times bestselling author Mary Beth Keane as she launches her new novel\, Whale Harbor. Keziah Weir\, author of The Mythmakers\, will moderate the discussion.  \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Print: A Bookstore. \nABOUT WHALE HARBOR\nFrom New York Times bestselling author of the “magnificent” (Fresh Air)\, “propulsive” (People)\, and “profound” (Vogue) Ask Again\, Yes\, a sweeping multi-generational saga inspired by the author’s own family history\, following eleven brothers torn apart and set on different paths between Ireland\, England\, Montana\, and New York. \n1960s\, Ireland. In the wake of tragedy\, a father makes choices for his eleven grieving sons. The older brothers will emigrate to England for work\, while the younger ones will stay behind. The second eldest\, Macdara\, is offered a job on a Montana cattle ranch and sets off. His spirited younger brother Rian begs Mac to take him along and Mac promises to bring Rian to America as soon as he’s old enough. But then one day Mac gets a call that Rian has disappeared. It’s a call that will haunt Mac and his family across decades. \nSpanning lifetimes and continents\, Whale Harbor is an expansive and unforgettable novel written with award-winning author Mary Beth Keane’s signature wit\, eloquence\, and attention to the emotional resonance of family. \nABOUT MARY BETH KEANE\nMary Beth Keane was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing\, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation\, PEN America\, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Half Moon\, The Walking People\, Fever\, and Ask Again\, Yes\, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. To date\, Ask Again\, Yes has been translated into twenty-two languages. \nWhale Harbor\, her fifth novel\, is forthcoming in North America and the U.K. in November 2026\, and in Ireland January 2027. \nPhoto credit: Jesse Dittmar \n  \nABOUT KEZIAH WEIR\n \nKeziah Weir is the author of the novel The Mythmakers\, which was named a New York Times Book Review ​Editors’ Choice and a best book of the year by Harper’s Bazaar and Barnes & Noble. She has previously worked as a senior staff writer and editor at Vanity Fair\, and on the editorial team at Elle. Her writing has also appeared in Esquire\, the New York Times\, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Vol. 1 Brooklyn\, and her work has been supported by Monson Arts and the Pasadena Literary Alliance. She grew up in San Francisco\, California and on Salt Spring Island\, British Columbia\, and now lives in Maine.
URL:https://maineirish.com/event/mary-beth-keane-whale-harbor/
LOCATION:Maine Irish Heritage Center\, 34 Gray St\, Portland\, ME\, 04102\, United States
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