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SKYLAND Book Launch

Fri, May 08

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Water Street Bookstore

Ann Joslin Williams will read from her new novel, SKYLAND

SKYLAND Book Launch
SKYLAND Book Launch

Time & Location

May 08, 2026, 7:00 PM

Water Street Bookstore, 125 Water St, Exeter, NH 03833, USA

About the book

"An achingly lovely novel about what happens when an act of violence tears apart a family. Skyland shows us that we may be able to find our way back from the unthinkable—slowly and painfully, to be sure, but not without moments of beauty." —Ann Packer, author of Some Bright Nowhere


A deeply moving novel that illuminates the complex ways we survive the unthinkable and slowly, painfully, learn to live again.

 

When Celia is murdered by a troubled young man from across the street, her husband Henry and daughters Nora and Lucy are left to navigate the unthinkable in their small town of Kittery, Maine. Desperate to help his daughters heal, Henry sends the girls to spend the summer at Skyland Farm, a remote artists' retreat in the New Hampshire mountains run by his beloved cousin Franny.

 

But the girls, feeling abandoned, struggle to find their footing among the resident artists.…


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