The Road to Dalton
by Shannon Bowring
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Pub Date Jun 06 2023 | Archive Date Jun 06 2023
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Description
A NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard Russo calls, “measured, wise, and beautiful.”
In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In the aftermath, their problems, both small and large, reveal a deeper understanding of the lives of their neighbors, and remind us all that no one is exactly who we think they are.
It’s 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice that’s charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend.
Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time now—a fact both accepted and ignored by their husbands. Across town, new mother Bridget lives with her high school sweetheart Nate, and is struggling with postpartum after a traumatic birth. And nearer still is teenager Greg, trying to define the complicated feelings he has about himself and his two close friends.
The Road to Dalton offers valuable understandings of what it means to be alive in the world—of pain and joy, conflict and love, and the endurance that comes from living.
A Note From the Publisher
- Readers of literary fiction, small-town fiction, family drama
- For fans of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, Fredrik Backman’s Beartown series, the fiction of Ann Patchett, Marilynne Robinson, Meg Wolitzer.
KEY SELLING POINTS
- Has support of Pulitzer-prize winning author Richard Russo (Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool, Chances Are)
- Additional outreach for blurbs from other well known Maine authors (Elizabeth Strout, Lily King)
- Debut novel from a fresh new voice
Advance Praise
“Paved with beauty, grace, humility, and love…a triumphant work that reminds us what literature should be.”—Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez
“[This] is the kind of book that too often flies under the literary radar these days: measured, wise, beautiful. But make no mistake. Beneath its smooth surface there lurks a gripping story and people worth caring about precisely because their joys and sorrows are so intensely private. It takes a gifted writer like Shannon Bowring to pierce the veil of that privacy and reveal both them and ourselves.”—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool, Chances Are
“Like all great novels, this book is actually about much more than its subject. It has essential things to show us about the human experience: how we shape and are shaped by our landscapes, how love persists in the face of great aridity and pain, how we strive to know one another though we never really can. Over and over, The Road to Dalton locates the miraculous in the mundane, then holds it up, glimmering, for the reader to see. In the end it reminds us that, no matter our circumstances, [everyone] is imbued with a dignity that cannot be denied or taken from us.”—Ron Currie, Jr., author of Everything Matters and The One-Eyed Man
“In wise, tender, sharp-eyed prose, Shannon Bowring illuminates the interlocking lives of rural Mainers in her stunning debut. I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end, for its vivid portrait of time and place and its cast of instantly unforgettable characters, all portrayed in glorious and often heartbreaking humanity. Bowring is an immensely talented writer to watch.”—Aaron Hamburger, author of Hotel Cuba and Nirvana Is Here
“A gentle and poignant portrait of small-town life in Maine—and of the spoken and unspoken truths that make a community. The Road to Dalton celebrates the better angels of our nature; a story of hope and family from a fresh new voice.”—Cara Hoffman, author of Running and Ruin
“What a rare gift Bowring has for sly humor and nuance as she paints these unforgettable characters in their rawest pain and sweetest joy. A genius, stealthy love story and a beautiful ode to family and friendship.”—Susan Conley, author of Landslide
Marketing Plan
Marketing & Publicity
- Print and e-galleys available via Edelweiss and Netgalley
- Consumer marketing
- Targeted influencer mailings
- Book Club promotion
- Library marketing (author is a librarian)
- Independent bookstore outreach
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781609459260 |
| PRICE | $18.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 250 |
Available on NetGalley
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