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Praise for Mary Alice Monroe:
“Haunting … a story of past mistakes and second chances.”
—Charleston Post & Courier
“Every book that Mary Alice has written has felt like a
homecoming to me.”—Pat Conroy
“Monroe makes her characters so believable, the reader can almost
hear them breathing.”—Booklist
“This book surprised me as to how closely it parallels what some
of us have lived and what some, thankfully are still hanging on
to…. Not for a long time have I enjoyed a book so much.”
—Clay Cable, Vice President of the South Carolina Shrimpers
Association and former Mayor of Isle of Palms, SC.
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Last Light Over Carolina
By Mary Alice Monroe
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe wrote with warmth
and grace about self discovery and fly fishing in the much-acclaimed TIME IS A RIVER. Now,
Monroe masterfully takes readers back to the south, this time to a shrimping community in South
Carolina. LAST LIGHT OVER CAROLINA (Gallery Books; June 8, 2010; $15.00), now
available in trade paperback, unfolds over the course of a single day, when a long-time captain is
injured at sea.
September 21, 2008: McClellanville, South Carolina— In this coastal town, shrimping is the
only way of life, and Bud Morrison has been working on a boat since he was a child. On this
particular day, Bud heads out for a morning haul and tells his wife, Carolina, that he’ll be back
by noon. But when he is overdue at the dock, the town must come together to find his missing
boat. As the search unfolds, flashbacks shed light on Bud and Carolina’s thirty year marriage, as
well as the town’s happier days when business was thriving.
May Alice Monroe has become famous for writing richly textured Southern fiction that delves
into the complexities of the human psyche in relatable and touching ways, and LAST LIGHT
OVER CAROLINA is no exception.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, including Time is
a River, Sweetgrass, Skyward, The Beach House, The Four Seasons, and The Book Club. She is
an active conservationist and lives in the low country of South Carolina.
LAST LIGHT OVER CAROLINA
By Mary Alice Monroe
Gallery Books; Publication Date: June 8, 2010
ISBN 9781416550099; Trade Paperback; $15.00
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