Join us on Thursday, June 1st at 7:00 p.m. at Tufts Library as we welcome author Julie Gerstenblatt with her most recent novel, Daughters of Nantucket. Register online to attend.

About the Book: Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear…Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence—and the challenges that go with it. On a sweltering July night, a massive fire breaks out in town, quickly kindled by the densely packed wooden buildings. With everything they possess now threatened, three very different women are forced to reevaluate their priorities and decide what to save, what to let go and what kind of life to rebuild from the ashes of the past.

About the Author: Gerstenblatt holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University and has taught everything from middle school to graduate school. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Kveller, Cognoscenti, Grown & Flown, and The Scarsdale Inquirer, among others. When not writing, she is a college essay coach as well as a producer and on-air host for A Mighty Blaze, which has grown into a leading resource for author interviews. A native New Yorker, she now lives in coastal Rhode Island with her family and one very smart Shichon poo.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase courtesy of Storybook Cove.