Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Maribeth Fischer, author of A Season of Perfect Happiness. In conversation with Mike Fischer.
Ten years after an unspeakable tragedy caused Claire to flee her hometown in Delaware, she finally feels content. She has a quiet, tidy life in Wisconsin, a place she picked at random for its perfect mitten shape on a map. Her carefully constructed identity is predicated on a simple plan: Keep her social circle small, and keep the past a secret. But when she meets Erik, that plan seems increasingly impossible, especially after she finds herself emotionally entangled not only with Erik, but with his ex-wife, Annabelle, their three young children, and a small set of friends, the kind she’d always wanted to have around her.
It's only when a person from her past arrives that Claire finds herself forced to confront what happened all those years ago. And as her past becomes known in her present, her new life—and the deep friendships she’s made—hang in the balance. If Claire chooses to confide in the people she’s grown to love, will they be able to forgive her? Will she finally forgive herself? Or will everything she has spent the last decade working towards fall apart?
Maribeth Fischer is the founder and executive director of the Rehoboth Beach Writers’ Guild. She has received three Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowships and two Pushcart Prizes for her essays. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and is the author of The Language of Goodbye and The Life You Longed For.
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