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Lindsay Hatton
reads from
Monterey Bay:
A Novel
This event includes a book signing
DateJul
19
Tuesday
July 19, 2016 7:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome local debut author LINDSAY HATTON for a reading from her novel Monterey Bay—set around the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium and the last days of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
About Monterey Bay
In 1940, fifteen year-old Margot Fiske arrives on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric entrepreneur father. Margot has been her father's apprentice all over the world, until an accident in Monterey's tide pools drives them apart and plunges her head-first into the mayhem of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
Steinbeck is hiding out from his burgeoning fame at the raucous lab of Ed Ricketts, the biologist known as Doc in Cannery Row. Ricketts, a charismatic bohemian, quickly becomes the object of Margot's fascination. Despite Steinbeck's protests and her father's misgivings, she wrangles a job as Ricketts's sketch artist and begins drawing the strange and wonderful sea creatures he pulls from the waters of the bay.
Unbeknownst to Margot, her father is also working with Ricketts. He is soliciting the biologist's advice on his most ambitious and controversial project to date: the transformation of the Row's largest cannery into an aquarium. When Margot begins an affair with Ricketts, she sets in motion a chain of events that will affect not just the two of them, but the future of Monterey as well.
Alternating between past and present, Monterey Bay explores histories both imagined and actual to create an unforgettable portrait of an exceptional woman, a world-famous aquarium, and the beloved town they both call home.
Praise
"Like Euphoria and The Signature of All Things, Monterey Bay is about passion—for ideas as well as lovers—that soaks in so deeply you can't ever wash it away. By the novel's end, I was in love with Ed Ricketts and feisty Margot Fiske myself—and with Monterey Bay too, which Lindsay Hatton brings to life with phenomenal skill." —Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You
"Lindsay Hatton’s Monterey Bay is a tour de force of heart, history, and imagination. The novel is a love letter to the glorious Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Hatton renders its characters, human and animal alike, with nuance, originality and, above all else, rare and powerful compassion." —Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi
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