"On November 14–15, the Boston Book Festival is teaming up with Massachusetts Center for the Book for a bonanza weekend of local literature, featuring authors from across the Commonwealth, in all genres, introducing readers to their latest books in a fast-paced series of bite-sized videos.
The link to register for the livestream is below; make plans to join us for a veritable smorgasbord of great new books by Massachusetts authors."
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A preview of my next book, AMPHIBIANS, a linked short story collection from Leapfrog Press, coming March 2021 (Winner, Leapfrog Fiction Award)! And an announcement, received today, that it will come out as an audiobook from Tantor Audio. So much gratitude. These stories are set in Maine, Italy, Japan and the UAE. They're about "the sensation of feeling not quite right in one's own body, on land and near water, at home and abroad" (Leapfrog). Available for preorder from Bookshop.org
"The work of an extraordinary talent." - Joan Silber
"A compelling, wise and beautiful book."- Ramona Ausubel
"[Tupper's novel is a] study of love relationships: How fulfilling and how devastating they can be, but how central they are to our human experience.
OFF ISLAND. Read it. Love it."
"Tupper sounds like someone I'd love to share a cup of tea with." - Tracey Barnes Priestley
This may be my favorite blurb ever.
RECOMMENDATION from The Second Half Online
Thanks to Elizabeth Rynecki and Authors Answer for this interview-- such inventive questions about my favorite works of art, an exhibition I'd like to see (The Shleppers: A Retrospective) and what brings me joy.
"Lara Tupper's prose shines with the same vibrancy of color that captivated her protagonist [Paul Gauguin]....An elegant investigation of family and art as conflicting forces...an awe-inspiring portrait that readers will be reluctant to leave." Sara McCrea
"Lara talked with Rose City Reader about her new book, the authority of a narrator's voice, and Zooming her latest book reading."
"Dense with beautiful coastal imagery and thoughtful in its consideration of ill-suited connections, the novel picks at the seams of marriages and affairs with clarity. Though Gauguin's legacy is dark, Off Island, with its moody setting and vulnerable characters, is a novel to savor."
FULL REVIEW by Karen Rigby