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Live with Marian Endicott and Madeleine Thien

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This event will be streamed live online as part of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore's Virtual Event Series. To register for free, visit: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/voyage-of-the-morning-light

Paperback copies with signed book plates are available for purchase at the following link: https://www.midtownscholar.com/virtual-event-series/voyage-of-the-morning-light

Bestselling author Marina Endicott will be interviewed by Booker Prize Finalist Madeleine Thien.

Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world.

At the heart of The Voyage of the Morning Light is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea, still mourning a miscarriage, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time, the repercussions of this act force Kay, who considers the boy her brother, to examine her own assumptions―which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her―about what is forgivable and what is right.

Inspired by a true story, Marina Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice, and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay’s examination of the idea of “difference”―between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species. The Voyage of the Morning Light is a breathtaking novel by a writer who has an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own.

To register for this free event, visit: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/voyage-of-the-morning-light

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