I think it takes a while for anyone who moves to a strange new town to feel as if they belong.
For me, my moment came when I joined the Board of Trustees of our island library, the Nantucket Atheneum. No matter where I travel, when I walk into a library, I smile with pleasure: I’m home. This is where I belong.
In my novel Belonging, Joanna Jones moves to Nantucket because she’s running away from her life in New York City, and she’s pregnant with a married man’s child. I had fun with this novel. I gave Joanna an old sea captain’s home where treasure was rumored to be buried in the ground beneath it. And treasure is rumored to be buried somewhere beneath a Nantucket house.
I was thrilled with the article our newspaper, the Inquirer-Mirror did on my book signing at Mitchell’s Book Corner.
The Weezie Library for Children
It was an honor to be included in the Commemorative Review published for the dedication of the restored Atheneum. Most of all, I was profoundly happy to be part of the organization that made my second home become a second home for everyone.
The cover of the ereader of Belonging