Join Author Marcia Peck for a celebration of her new novel Water Music: A Cape Cod Story.
Reception at 5:00 pm, reading at 5:45 pm, followed by a book signing.
Books will be available for sale- payments can be made via cash, check, or credit card.
RSVP to mpcello@comcast.net All are welcome.
About the Book
The bridge at Sagamore was closed when we got there that summer of 1956. We had to cross the canal at Buzzards Bay over the only other roadway
that tethered Cape Cod to the mainland.
Thus twelve-year-old Lily Grainger, while safe from 'communists and the Pope,' finds her family suddenly adrift. That was the summer the Andrea Doria sank, pilot whales stranded, and Lily's father built a house he couldn't afford. Target practice on a nearby decommissioned Liberty Ship echoed not only the rancor in her parents' marriage, a rancor stoked by Lily's competitive uncle. Lily discovers betrayals beyond her understanding as well as the small ways in which people try to rescue each other. She draws on her music lessons and her love of Cape Cod-from Sagamore and Monomoy to Nauset Spit and the Wellfleet Dunes, seeking safe passage from the limited world of her salt marsh to the larger, open ocean.
What Readers Are Saying
"Wise, funny and deeply moving." —Carol Dines, author of This Distance We Call Love and The Take-Over Friend
"Observant and sensitive, deeply attuned to the beauty and fragility of the natural and human worlds." —Andy Brown, author of The Tree Climbing Cure and Grace Notes and Other Poems
"Peck has written a moving and melodic triumph of imagination and story, a fine harmony of intimacies and passions." —Nicole Helget, author of The Summer of Ordinary Ways
About The Author
Marcia Peck's writing has received awards from New Millenium Writings (First prize for "Memento Mori"), Tamarack Awards (honorable mention for "An Unexpected Cadence"), Lake Superior Writers' Conference (First Prize for "Pride and Humility"), Glimmer Train (finalist for Very Short Fiction Award for "The Flavor of Borscht"), Flashquake (nomination for Pushcart Prize for "Long Distance"), MnArtists MiniStories (Winner for "Little Vladimir's Father"), Open to Interpretation: Fading Light (Honorable Mention for "Sextet"), Gemini Magazine (Honorable Mention for "Lasting Formations"). Marcia has spent her entire musical career as a cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra; in addition, she returns to Jackson Hole Wyoming, every summer as artist-in-residence with the Grand Teton Music Festival.