Author Signing with Lesley O'Connell - RIPPLE EFFECTS

About the book: In eleven carefully crafted stories, Lesley Mahoney O'Connell's landscapes and seascapes help readers to recognize and to feel the strengths, flaws, and compromises her characters are developing as they navigate their life choices. Most of the stories are set in New England coastal villages. All are sensitive and thought-provoking, the characters relatable and real. Ripple Effects features mostly quiet but intelligent characters who see themselves as outsiders in their own worlds. O'Connell lets readers listen as they work their way toward decisions they can somehow live with. Some swim through currents of parental self-centeredness; others, lacking ordinary filters, dream impossible dreams as they ignore career crises and marital ennui. O'Connell is especially good at exploring the interior lives, the caves and cliffs carved by deep losses, creating empathy and often a sense of peace in readers. Lesley Mahoney O'Connell lives on the South Shore of Massachusetts with he

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