Rose Smith
In boyhood, Egan and Lucian explore a Northeast Eden with boundless energy, navigating by the grace of twin intuition. As they grow older, their intertwined existence loosens as the things that separate the pair tug on their life trajectories and relationships. Rose Smith’s debut novel boards readers on a ferry to the craggy coastlines of a Maine island, where a pair of brothers and the people that love them stumble over the stories they’ve inherited and the futures they’re trying to create in a thoughtful and cinematically-crafted family drama. (Read book review on p.52.) – Caroline Drew
