Background
Towler, Katherine was born on September 1, 1956 in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Lewis W. Towler and Jane B. Kellogg.
(Ruth Lambert left Snow Island when she was a teenager, bu...)
Ruth Lambert left Snow Island when she was a teenager, but returns in the Fall of 1990 after her aunt's death, when she and her sister inherit the old Snow Inn. Nick McGarrell, a Vietnam veteran, has quit his job on the mainland as an engineer and retreated to his island birthplace to work as a carpenter. Nora Venable, an aging lesbian and owner of the island's abandoned mansion, moves into the caretaker's cottage on a whim. From the confines of their small New England community, the trio watch as the United States prepares to go to war once again, this time in the Persian Gulf. When the mansion burns down one night in a mysterious fire, the lives of Nora, Nick, and Ruth unexpectedly intersect, tearing them from their private but determined battles with the past, and propelling them into the unknown future of loss, love, and redemption.
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(On Snow Island, a remote community off the New England co...)
On Snow Island, a remote community off the New England coast, sixteen-year-old Alice Daggett struggles to come to terms with her father's death while managing the family store. George Tibbits, a loner in his forties and owner of the island's twin houses, returns each year in an act of homage to the women who raised him there. While George tries to make peace with his troubled past and Alice befriends the twenty-six-year-old who tends the island lighthouse, both characters learn the hard lesson of what it means to love. This tender tale about the power of place and memory plumbs the depths of two unique and uncharted lives. As the country is drawn into World War II, George and Alice find their fates shaped by events that occur far from the island home that defines them.
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(Katherine Towler returns to Snow Island with "Evening Fer...)
Katherine Towler returns to Snow Island with "Evening Ferry" - the second installment of her multigenerational trilogy about family bonds, unexpected love, and the threat of war. Thirty-two-year-old Rachel Shattuck grew up on Snow Island but left at the age of eighteen, anxious to escape the confines of the isolated community. Living on the mainland, just a short ferry ride away from Snow, she struggles to adjust to being divorced while grieving the recent death of her mother. In the summer of 1965, she returns to Snow Island to care for her injured father and discovers her mother's diaries hidden in a closet. Reading Phoebe Shattuck's account of her life as a wife and a mother, Rachel learns the truth about her family's history, her mother's death, and her own aspirations to lead a new life. In elegant prose and inspired storytelling, Towler gives us a moving portrait of two women and the island they come to call home, at a time when the world is changing, and the country faces war once again.
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Towler, Katherine was born on September 1, 1956 in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Lewis W. Towler and Jane B. Kellogg.
Bachelor in English literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1974—1978. Master of Arts in English literature, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 1980—1984. Master of Arts in fiction writing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1981—1982.
Freelance writer, publications consultant self-employed, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, since 1987. Member faculty Master of Fine Arts Program in Writing, Southern New Hampshire University, since 2006.
(Katherine Towler returns to Snow Island with "Evening Fer...)
(On Snow Island, a remote community off the New England co...)
(Ruth Lambert left Snow Island when she was a teenager, bu...)
Member of Authors Guild, New Hampshire Writers Project (associate. Board of trustees 1994-1997), Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association New England (associate).
Married James A. Sparrell, September 14, 1991.