MAINE LITERATURE AWARD FINALIST

INDIEREADER DISCOVERY AWARD 2024 WINNER FOR MEMOIR

“Can you live in a moment?”

This love letter to Maine from artist Blue Butterfield is a book of intimate essays illustrated with her evocative woodblock prints. 

Life isn’t easy on a farm outside Bar Harbor with her single mom, but they both find solace and joy in the beauty of Acadia National Park and in making art. This is a unique book about how you find inspiration and gratitude in attention: to nature, to loved ones, to ideas. From the peaks of Katahdin to the lakes of Mount Desert Island and the Casco Bay islands, her love of Maine shines from every page.

192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.