Little great island

Little great island A novel

Kate Woodworth

Book - 2025

"On Little Great Island, climate change is disrupting both life and love. After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up--a place she swore she'd never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island's summer residents, now back himself to sell his family's summer home. Mari and Harry's lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island...from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies, Little Great Is...land illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love"--

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Subjects
Ex-cultists > Fiction.
Islands > Maine > Fiction.
Homecoming > Fiction.
Climatic changes > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Genres
Domestic fiction
Published
[Grass Valley, CA] : Sibylline Press [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Kate Woodworth (author)
Physical Description
341 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781960573902
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Woodworth understands people: their emotions, their foibles, their reactions to external conflict. Each character in Little Great Island is utterly grounded and achingly empathetic, developed with gorgeous, flowing prose and a steady, sometimes heart-wrenching plot. After a conflict with a cult pastor, Mari McGavin returns to a small island off the coast of Maine, her young son in tow. Once there, she reunites with her childhood friend Harry Richardson, who is still deeply grieving his wife, Ellie, and has returned to the island to sell their home. Woodworth's narrative of friendship, marriage, and the loneliness of grief is intertwined with that of worldwide climate change and its effects on the island, which sees its ecosystem changing for the worse. Mari and Harry are brought closer together as they weather changes, but as events begin to spiral, they will have to take a stand against greed and corruption to save their small island.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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