Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick Dalton is now available in paperback. To celebrate, SparkPoint Studio has one copy to give away!
A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song
is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn’t she always know her secret would surface?
An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry researcher, back to her childhood home. There, Cadie and Daniela are forced to face a dark secret that ended both their idyllic childhood bond and the magical summer that takes up more space in Cadie’s memory then all her other years combined.
Now grown up, bound by long-held oaths, and faced with truths she does not wish to see, Cadie must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the forest she loves, as drought, foreclosures, and wildfire spark tensions between displaced migrant farm workers and locals.
Waiting for the Night Song is a love song to the natural beauty around us, a call to fight for what we believe in, and a reminder that the truth will always rise. (Synopsis courtesy of Amazon.)
“Dalton weaves the vagaries of friendship, the wonder of the natural world, and the power of truth to create a powerful and unforgettable story.”
―Erica Ferencik, bestselling author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle
“Waiting for the Night Song is not just a coming of age story, but several coming of age stories. It’s a novel about how time passes and how time stands still, ties that bind and ties that constrict, place and our place in the world, what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, all of which is to say that Julie Carrick Dalton has written a novel of elegant contradiction, intimately explored, beautifully woven together.”
―Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of One Two Three
"Smart and searingly passionate...an illuminating snapshot of nature, betrayal, and sacrifices set in the evocative New Hampshire wilderness."
―Kim Michele Richardson, bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Julie Carrick Dalton’s journalism has been published in such places as The Boston Globe and BusinessWeek, and she workshopped the novel in GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator, a year-long, MFA-level novel intensive. She has won several awards including the 2017 William Faulkner Literary Competition. Dalton has been invited to speak at literary conferences, schools, and universities on the intersection of fiction and climate.
Waiting for the Night Song presents pressing issues of climate change and its effects on our communities in a cautiously hopeful way, an optimistic call to action that is sure to resonate with readers and gives this page turner an urgent, timely, big scope feel. In her non-writing time, Dalton operates a 100-acre organic farm in rural New Hampshire, where the novel takes place.
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18 comments:
Yes, I am estranged from a close friend. This was necessary since I felt her behavior was hurtful.
Yes but it happened over time. and distance.
I don't seem to be able to manage to hold onto friends that may be close for a while. Throughout my whole life I have gotten the third wheel bump.
Unfortunately, yes.
Yes unfortunately. It was as heartbreaking as breakup, but I felt I needed to walk away for my own mental health.
Thank you for hosting this giveaway.
Sadly yes with one, I think we grew apart by distance and each of us getting married.
Yes, I have had to do that before. Sadly, it was because of her need for constant drama being more important than my health & need for peace. We should be allowed to have some boundaries & to be able to live our lives as we choose to.
Yes unfortunately
Sadly yes
Not estranged as such, just geographically too far apart.
When I moved across the country I slowly lost touch with a couple of friends who had been very close.
No, I have never become estranged from a friend.
I have become estranged by someone I felt close to.
Yes, and it was over something really stupid.
no
No, I have not.
Yes, I had to separate my family from hers because her child was doing things that could hurt my kids.
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