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Release Date: October 24, 2023
About The Book:
Framed for the brutal attack on her manager, indie rock legend Red Nelson flees to the only family she doesn’t yet know: her estranged sister, Kate Fisher, a Search & Rescue pilot working the remote mountains of upper New York State. Kate, the daughter of her father’s legitimate but unhappy marriage, has no wish to meet Red, the product of her father’s passionate love affair, but when Kate’s daughter, Molly, decides to hide Red on their property, concern over Molly’s safety forces Kate to stage a rescue and repair the broken but longed-for family she comes from.
A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue explores the unexpected gift of found family in times of loss and tragedy, forging a new relationship between two related strangers, and the discovery by three women of different generations who learn that by saving each other, they save themselves.
About The Author:
Mary Carroll Moore is an award-winning author of three novels, including the PEN/Faulkner- and Lambda Literary Award-nominated young adult novel, Qualities of Light (Bella Books), the prequel to A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and conferences since 1998, including Grub Street, the Muse, and the Marketplace, the Loft Literary Center, Madeline Island School of the Arts, PEN Women, and others. Her writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary “Reader’s Choice” award. Before moving into fiction, she worked as a chef, a cooking-school owner, a cookbook author, and a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times for twelve years. Her first cookbook won a Julia Child/IACP award. Over two hundred of her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in magazines and literary journals. She is also an exhibiting artist in the American Impressionist tradition, working in private and university collections in the US and Canada. She lives in New Hampshire with her family. For fifteen years, she’s written a weekly newsletter for thousands of subscribers around the world and recently moved to Substack: (Your Weekly Writing Exercise https://marycarrollmoore.substack.com/p/its-all-too-much-risk-that-is) https://www.marycarrollmoore.com/
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Book Blurbs:
“About music and love and who—and what—has gone missing from our lives and how we desperately try to get it all back. Gorgeously written . . . as astonishing as it is real.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of With or Without You.
“An exciting work of survival fiction with strong female characters.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Deftly explores and develops relationship dynamics, both familial and romantic, and what someone is willing to do and forgive for the people they care about.” –Publisher’s Weekly/Booklife.
“Mary Carroll Moore unpacks the complexity of family relationships with sensitivity, motion, and lovely sensory detail. A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue is a cross-genre read with elements of suspense, romance, thriller, and survivor story, populated by a trio of strong women in unusual circumstances. Quantifying what makes a book satisfying is often hard, but this novel is exactly that.” –Suzanne DeWitt Hall, author of The Language of Bodies
“Mary Carroll Moore parallels Kate Fisher’s internal struggle—a husband she fears has turned away from her again— with Red Nelson’s physical, immediate flight from a violent man and terrible loss. A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue brilliantly shows how distant lives can intersect unexpectedly and why family, in its various forms, provides both tragedy and grace. With immaculately crafted suspense, A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue is both impossible to put down and intimate enough to make you feel a member of this brave, unstoppable family.” —Rachel Moulton, author of Tinfoil Butterfly and The Insatiable Volt Sisters
“Rich with character and compassion, A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue is a thrilling, deftly told tale of flight, survival, and discovery—of one’s own strength and resilience, and of the bonds that make strangers family.” —Kate Racculia, Alex Award-winning, author of Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts and Bellweather Rhapsody
“A Woman’s Guide to Search & Rescue opens with a harrowing plane crash in the wilderness and culminates in a beautiful, surprising friendship between two estranged sisters who save each other in unexpected ways. Mary Carroll Moore weaves a masterful tale of the family we choose.” —Ginger Eager, author of the AWP-award-winning novel The Nature of Remains and Georgia Author of the Year
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