"Coming Home" with Kay Liss: A Conversation & Book Signing

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Author Kay Liss in conversation with guest host Earl Brechlin about her new book, “Coming Home,” a book signing afterward. This event is part of Reading with Wings, an occasional series co-hosted by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the Gilley that is free and open to all. Registration is required. Quote from the author: I believe there’s nothing more important at this time in our history than our relationship to the natural world. I want to bring this urgent message to the world through my novels. Kay Tobler Liss About the Book: Four generations of a family return to cherished places in nature from their youth and uncover buried secrets about themselves. From the coast of North Carolina to New York, from Savannah, Georgia to Switzerland, the special places include a meadow, a pine grove, a river, and mountain valley. Their journeys begin after a Christmas dinner and end a year later when they share their stories with each other and start to heal as a family. They finally face a pivotal event–the death of a sibling and son. The most valuable lesson they learn is that nature can not only be a source of beauty and solace but of personal transformation and expanding compassion for all life. About the Author Kay Tobler Liss’s greatest passion is for the natural world. She began writing poetry while out in the woods where she grew up on Long Island, New York. She won a prize for her poetry at 17, and went on to study literature at Bard College and Environmental Studies at Southampton College. Kay Tobler Liss wrote for newspapers and magazines for many years, and also taught literature on the high school and college level but had always wanted to write a novel. Her first novel, “The Last Resort,” published in July 2020, combined both her passion for nature and for social justice for oppressed people. Her new novel, “Coming Home,” deals with how nature can not only save us as individuals but help us find common ground with other people and all living things.