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Whale Harbor
2026
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'Mary Beth Keane writes to the heart of the human heart' MIRANDA COWLEY HELLER 'One of our finest writers on the interior complexities of marriage and family' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A writer of extraordinary depth, feeling and wit' MEG WOLITZER Whale Harbor is an immersive multi-generational family story from the beloved and bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes. Inspired by the author's own family history, it follows the fortunes of eleven brothers, whose lives are set on different paths in the wake of a sudden tragedy. Whilst the younger brothers remain in Ireland, the older ones head overseas to Montana and New York, where they find work and build lives and families of their own. When one brother mysteriously disappears and becomes estranged from the family, it sparks a lifelong quest to find him.

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Mary Beth Keane
Mary Beth Keane
Author · 5 books
Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Walking People, Fever, and Ask Again, Yes, which was a New York Times Best Seller and was translated into twenty-two languages. Her new novel, The Half Moon, is forthcoming May 2, 2023.
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