WAYNE — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Barbara Walsh will discuss her new book, “August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm,” on Thursday, Aug. 2, at Cary Memorial Library.
Following her talk, she will sign copies of “August Gale” and her children’s book, “Sammy in the Sky,” illustrated by painter Jamie Wyeth.
In “August Gale,” Walsh — who has interviewed killers, bad cops and crooked politicians in the course of her career — takes readers into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home.
Sixty-eight years after the hurricane that claimed several of her Marystown ancestors, Walsh searches for memories of the August gale and the grandfather who abandoned her dad as a young boy. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive.
Walsh will speak at 5 p.m. at the library at 17 Old Winthrop Road, just off Route 133. An informal wine-and-cheese reception will follow the talk. For more information, call 685-3612.
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