Meet & Greet with Author Rob Kagan
Wed, Aug 03
|Below the Brine Bookshop
Set on the tiny resort island of Chappaquiddick, Kagan's memoir Noah's Rejects: A Cautionary Tale About Life on an Island Paradise, offers an insider's look at life on an island, off of an island, off the coast of America.
Time & Location
Aug 03, 2022, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Below the Brine Bookshop, 554 MA-28, Harwich Port, MA 02646, USA
About the event
About Noah's Rejects:
On the tiny resort island of Chappaquiddick, things are not always as they appear. It looks like paradise, it feels like paradise…it should be paradise. But for Rob Kagan, a summer-home caretaker, it’s a struggle to live amongst so much beauty while surviving so much dysfunction.
With intimate knowledge of this vacation hotspot’s inner workings, Rob shows the reader a year in the life on Chappy. He weaves together a multitude of stories, from the heartbreaking to the hilarious, that reveal how the seasons on this tiny spit of sand off the coast of Massachusetts can tear at a person’s soul. With his family and business at the center of this saga, Rob attempts to showcase the island life that most people never get to see. A story of class struggle, hardships, and parenthood that serve as a microcosm for the greater society…off-island.
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