Description
As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island’s one and only hotel — are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there’s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge’s owners, who’s looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local, who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tragedy strikes, dark secrets explode, dividing the island community over the fate of a young boy suddenly more vulnerable to his violent father than ever. In the uniquely ephemeral atmosphere of a summer resort, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic warmth and charm, an ever-deepening story of lost loves and found romance, of loyalties and betrayals; and of lingering–sometimes fleeting–joy.
About the Author
Thisbe Nissen is the author of three novels,Our Lady of the Prairie(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018),Osprey Island(Knopf, 2004),The Good People of New York(Knopf, 2001), and a story collection,Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night(University of Iowa Press, 1999, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award). She is also the co-author withErin ErgenbrightofThe Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook, a collection of stories, recipes, and art collages. Her fiction has been published inThe Iowa Review,The American Scholar,Seventeen, andThe Virginia Quarterly Review, and anthologized inThe Iowa Award: The Best Stories 1991-2000andBest American Mystery Stories. Her nonfiction has appeared inVogue,Glamour,PreservationandThe Believer, and is featured in several essay anthologies.She has been the recipient of fellowships from the James Michener-Copernicus Society, The University of Iowa, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony, and was the 19th Zale Writer-in-Residence at Tulane University. She has taught at Columbia University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Brandeis University, The New School's Eugene Lang College and in the low residency MFA program at Pacific University. These days, she teaches undergrad, MFA and PhD students at Western Michigan University.She and her husband,Jay Baron Nicorvo, are parents of two rescue cats, many sprightly chickens, and one intriguing human child. They dream, one day, of raising goats.
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