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CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Lucky Turtle by Bill Roorbach – Book Talk at the Carrabassett Valley Public Library & Community Center on Tuesday, June 13 at 4 p.m.

The Community Book Club at the CV Library will be having an open book discussion at 3:00 on the same day; all are welcome!

Bill Roorbach is the author of five previous books of fiction, including The Girl of the Lake, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love, the bestselling Life Among Giants, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend.

Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book, Writing Life Stories, has been in print for twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Ecotone, New York magazine, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.

Published in 2022, Lucky Turtle is a novel dedicated to his uncle, Bill. The dedication was not made lightly. Much of the book is set in Montana. When Roorbach was growing up, his uncle gave him an unforgettable introduction to that state. Lucky Turtle is not autobiographical. Roorbach made it clear he was not writing about himself.

But Montana, Uncle Bill, and his adolescent experiences all played a role in the creation of the novel. The time he spent out West as he found his own way in life turned out to be, as he put it, “one of the seeds of the story.”

Page-turning, full of vivid characters, delicious suspense, and ultimately joy, Lucky Turtle is a big- hearted, deeply engrossing love story from one of our most entertaining and perceptive writers.