The From Aways Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From Aways an irreverent story of family love friendship and lobsters in the tradition of J Courtney Sullivan s Maine and Richard Russo s

Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J Courtney Sullivan s Maine and Richard Russo s Empire Falls Two women come to Maine in search of family and find love, heartbreak, and friendship than they d ever imagined one little fishing town could hold.When LeaFresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J Courtney Sullivan s Maine and Richard Russo s Empire Falls Two women come to Maine in search of family and find love, heartbreak, and friendship than they d ever imagined one little fishing town could hold.When Leah, a young New York reporter, meets Henry, she falls in love with everything about him his freckles, green thumb, and tales of a Maine childhood They marry quickly and Leah convinces Henry to move back to Menamon As Leah builds a life there, reporting for The Menamon Star and vowing to be less of an emotional screw up, the newlyweds are shocked to discover that they don t know each other nearly so well as they thought they did.When Quinn s mother dies, she tracks down the famous folk singer father she s never known, in Menamon Scrappy and smart mouthed, Quinn gets a job at the local paper, an apartment above the town diner, and tries to shore up the courage to meet her father But falling in love with her roommate, Rosie, was never part of the plan.These two unruly women s work relationship at The Star deepens into best friendship when they stumble onto a story that shakes sleepy Menamon and holds damaging repercussions for Leah s husband and Quinn s roommate both As the town descends into turmoil, both women must decide what kind of lives they are
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CJ s fiction has appeared in Tin House, TriQuarterly, Third Coast, The L Magazine, The Brooklyn Review, The Laurel Review, SLICE, The Kenyon Review, and Esquire She is the 2010 recipient of McSweeney s Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, the winner of the 2012 Jaimy Gordon Prize in Fiction and the A Room of Her Own Foundation s Orlando Prize for Sudden Fiction She was also a finalist in Esquire s Short Short Fiction Competition and shortlisted for the UK s Bridport Prize.Her debut novel, THE FROM AWAYS, a story of family, friendship, love lobsters set in small town Maine, was published by William Morrow in May 2014 Though ever and always a New Englander in her heart, CJ currently lives in a little white house, beneath a very mossy oak, in Tallahassee, Florida.