{"id":105,"date":"2012-06-20T13:34:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-06-20T13:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:34:15","slug":"little-gale-gumbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Little Gale Gumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a plug for a friend of mine speaking at the Portland Public Library in a week. Erika grew up in Maine, and her mother is a dear friend of mine. <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Harvest-supper-pumpkin-pies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-106\" title=\"Harvest supper - pumpkin pies\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Harvest-supper-pumpkin-pies-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Harvest-supper-pumpkin-pies-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Harvest-supper-pumpkin-pies-412x300.jpg 412w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Harvest-supper-pumpkin-pies.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, June 27 Erika Marks, author of <em>Little Gale Gumbo<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Erika Marks\u2019 debut women\u2019s fiction novel, <em>Little Gale Gumbo<\/em>, is about a woman and her daughters who leave a difficult past in New Orleans to start over in a small Maine town where they open a Creole restaurant.<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Hoping for a fresh start, Camille and her daughters, Dahlia and Josie, leave their lives in New Orleans and move to Little Gale, Maine.\u00a0 On the small island the locals are skeptical of the trio, but twenty-five years later Camille\u2019s caf\u00e9 becomes an island staple.\u00a0 All seems right in their world, including Camille\u2019s relationship with a local man, Ben.\u00a0 But tragedy soon strikes and Ben is left fighting for his life.\u00a0 Dahlia and Josie, along with Ben\u2019s son, Matthew, must do everything they can to protect Ben and confront long-held secrets and unrequited loves that will test them as a family.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Erika Marks lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her family.\u00a0 Visit her online at <a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.portland.lib.me.us\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=ca7661bb478b48b98fe52ea4d312df3b&amp;URL=http{a924d0e49cc5813a40c6e5abf88cc5a144f266a1cd8c3074f66db425794a7bb6}3a{a924d0e49cc5813a40c6e5abf88cc5a144f266a1cd8c3074f66db425794a7bb6}2f{a924d0e49cc5813a40c6e5abf88cc5a144f266a1cd8c3074f66db425794a7bb6}2fwww.erikamarks.wordpress.com{a924d0e49cc5813a40c6e5abf88cc5a144f266a1cd8c3074f66db425794a7bb6}2f\" target=\"_blank\">www.erikamarks.wordpress.com<\/a> and follow her on Twitter @erikamarksauthr.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a plug for a friend of mine speaking at the Portland Public Library in a week. Erika grew up in Maine, and her mother is a dear friend of mine. Wednesday, June 27 Erika Marks, author of Little Gale Gumbo Erika Marks\u2019 debut women\u2019s fiction novel, Little Gale Gumbo, is about a woman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Gale Gumbo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-erika-marks","tag-little-gale-gumbo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}