Please join us as we welcome local writer Claire Hersom on Tuesday, August 5th at 1:00pm. The talk will focus on Hersom’s debut novel “Smithville Junction”.
Hersom is a native Mainer whose work has appeared in several poetry journals and anthologies, as well as in Yankee Magazine’s New England Memories series. Her book “Drowning: A Poetic Memoir” was used as a textbook by the Rockland UMA Campus for Human Services.
Hersom was awarded an Emerging Artist Grant in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation of Boston. Her poem “Norman Lee” was awarded first place by the Maine Poets Society as Best Poem about Maine. She lives in Winthrop and has three grown children and several grandchildren.
Light snacks and drinks will be served.
Date: Tuesday, August 5th
Time: 1:00 PM
Cost: Free for all - this is being sponsored by the Auburn Senior Community Center
The first 20 people to register will receive a copy of the book. Please only take it if you will be able to attend the reading on the 5th.
Smithville Junction: A Maine Novel
Even in the smallest, uneventful Maine town, the world can hand out some tough challenges, and Smithville Junction is no exception, so when Roy Clench gives his five-day-old baby girl away, the whole town is in an uproar, and if not for his two young boys, he might have been run out of town. But the world has a way of passing out everyone’s comeuppance when least expected and ironically, most deserved. Smithville Junction tells the story of this man as he navigates through a hard forgiveness he is forced to face in the worst of circumstances, and one little girl who brings him unexpectedly to the place he can find it.
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