This spring we’re taking the written word into the great outdoors in a three-part literary event series led by our very own Marketing and Development Manager, Emily Southard. Our third event is a group discussion of Amity Gaige’s literary thriller Heartwood.
In the heart of the Maine Woods, forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis has vanished two hundred miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hope alive.
In charge of the investigation is Beverly Miller, the determined Maine State Game Warden leading the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena— a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community—becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental.
This event is free to attend, but registration is required.
Additional events in this series included a group discussion of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry in April and a nature poetry read-aloud in May.