To the New Owners
A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
An Amazon Best of the Month (Biographies & Memoirs)
Named a Best Book of Summer by Town & Country, a Best Beach Read of 2017 by Jane Ciabattari at BBC Culture, and selected by Kirkus Reviews for “Summer Lives: 10 Buzzworthy Books from Memoirists and Essayists.”
Published in hardcover to strong sales and media attention, with reviews in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe, an interview with Scott Simon on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and an excerpt in Vanity Fair
A sweet, atmospheric, and subtly moving memoir about saying goodbye to a beloved family vacation home.
Also a celebration of Martha’s Vineyard, through the seasons and over the years, with cameos by famous islanders, including Katherine Graham.
Evocative of George Colt’s book on Cape Cod, The Big House, which sold over 250,000 copies.
Blais won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting at the Miami Herald.
Blais is the New York Times bestselling author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction. Now considered a classic, it was voted one of the top 100 sports books of the twentieth century by ESPN.
The New York Times feature of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle is being reprinted in The Stories We Tell: America’s Great Legacy of Women in Longform Journalism (Mike Sager Publishing) edited by Patsy Sims, the first of a two-book anthology that honors women who have distinguished themselves in the field of literary journalism.
Madeleine Blais is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Her book In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. She is also the author of Uphill Walkers and The Heart Is an Instrument. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
