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Edan Lepucki’s second novel an exceptional offering

Elizabeth Strout’s latest an exceptional, engaging literary feat

Novel combines disparate genre elements to excellent effect

Historical fiction follows one woman’s tragedies and triumphs

Boylan thriller a compelling, powerful read

BANGOR — Coming off a successful Bangor Humanities Day event in cooperation with the University of Maine Humanities Center, the Norumbega Collective is hosting a fiction reading in cooperation with the University of Maine’s New Writing Series. 

Every journey from childhood to adulthood has its own ups and downs. The voyage through adolescence is fraught no matter who, where or when you are. That uniqueness is a source of fascination that has led to the proliferation of the coming-of-age story. Innumerable literary luminaries have offered up their own tales about growing up.