Corinne Demas: Author Talk and Reading

About The Road Towards Home

Widower Noah Shilling considers Clarion Court to be less an independent living community and more a prison. But there may be hope for the place yet. The newest resident is bold, eccentric, rule-breaking Cassandra Joyce–whom, as it turns out, Noah met long ago in college. As Noah and Cassandra get reacquainted, major changes at Clarion Court force them both to reevaluate their living situation. When Noah invites Cassandra to rough it with him at his Cape Cod cottage, the old friends must decide whether they should risk embarking on the next stage of their journey together. But moving forward means coming to terms with the past and relying on each other to do so, which is something the stubbornly independent pair may not be ready for. They’ve come this far on their own, and unless they can reconcile a lifetime of emotional baggage, the road they started down together may lead instead to parted ways.

About Corinne Demas

Corinne Demas is the award-winning author of thirty-eight books, including six novels (The Road Towards Home, The Writing Circle), two short story collections, a memoir (Eleven Stories High, Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948–1968), numerous books for children (The Littlest Matryoshka, Saying Goodbye to Lulu, Once There Was), a poetry chapbook, and a play. A number of her books including The Disappearing Island, The Boy Who Was Generous with Salt, Returning to Shore, and If Ever I Return Again, are set on the outer Cape. She is a Professor Emeritus of English at Mount Holyoke College, a Fiction Editor of The Massachusetts Review, and divides her time between Wellfleet and Western Massachusetts. www.corinnedemas.com