Book Beginning: Off Island by Lara Tupper

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS
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MY BOOK BEGINNING

The northern island looked best in morning light: slices of sheer cold rays on rugged pines and cliffs, the gray-blue sea below.

Off Island by Lara Tupper.

Tupper's new novel blends an imagined historical tale of artist Paul Gauguin living on an island off the the coast of Maine with a contemporary story of another painter who finds the art and letters Gauguin left behind.

Off Island launches January 6, 2020 and is available for pre-order from Encircle Publications.

From the publisher's description:

With wry humor and clear-eyed precision, Tupper captures the lure of the unknown, the pull of the familiar and the strangers our loved ones turn out to be. A novel of love and disappointment, duty and wanderlust, Off Island questions what it means to be loyal to one’s art, one’s family and one’s home.

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YOUR BOOK BEGINNING




TIE IN: The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice is a natural tie in with this event and there is a lot of cross over, so many people combine the two. The idea is to post a teaser from page 56 of the book you are reading and share a link to your post. Find details and the Linky for your Friday 56 post on Freda’s Voice.

MY FRIDAY 56

The dirt road is lined with stocky pines, weak sun slanting in. In winter the dirt freezes in random stretches, making tricky planes Pete likes to crack with steel-toed boots.