gibrangraham 's review for:

Little Great Island: A Novel by Kate Woodworth

4.75

dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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In Little Great Island, author Kate Woodworth swaddles you in a host of socio-economic problems and life’s challenges. The beauty of her writing lies in how she carves hopeful paths through them all with her fully developed characters that feel like neighbors. This is a novel about growing from past mistakes and grief that we can all use right now. Even if you don’t have your own experience of island life to draw upon, her depiction ebbs and flows across the page with honesty and truth. The characters believe it and readers will too. Let this one sit on the shelf with a small but mighty list of accurate portrayals of life in Maine.