From-Aways

<p><strong>Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with <em>The From-Aways</em> an irreverent story of family love friendship and lobsters in the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan's <em>Maine</em> and Richard Russo's <em>Empire Falls</em>.</strong></p><p>Two women come to Maine in search of family and find more love heartbreak and friendship than they'd ever imagined one little fishing town could hold.</p><p>When Leah a young New York reporter meets Henry she falls in love with everything about him: his freckles green thumb and tales of a Maine childhood. They marry quickly and Leah convinces Henry to move back to Menamon. As Leah builds a life there reporting for <em>The Menamon Star</em> and vowing to be less of an emotional screw-up the newlyweds are shocked to discover that they don't know each other nearly so well as they thought they did.</p><p>When Quinn's mother dies she tracks down the famous folk-singer father she's never known in Menamon. Scrappy and smart-mouthed Quinn gets a job at the local paper an apartment above the town diner and tries to shore up the courage to meet her father. But falling in love with her roommate Rosie was never part of the plan.</p><p>These two unruly women's work relationship at <em>The Star</em> deepens into best-friendship when they stumble onto a story that shakes sleepy Menamon--and holds damaging repercussions for Leah's husband and Quinn's roommate both. As the town descends into turmoil both women must decide what kind of lives they are willing to fight for.</p>