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Martha McPhee Omega Farm
Martha McPhee Omega Farm

Sat, Oct 21

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Howling Basset Books

Martha McPhee Omega Farm

A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist Martha McPhee

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Oct 21, 2023, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Howling Basset Books, 39 Old Turnpike Rd, Oldwick, NJ 08858, USA

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We are honorded to host Martha McPhee as part of her book tour of Omega Farm!

The long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist --- a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother.

In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that’s been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother’s care and the sprawling, ramshackle property --- a broken septic system, invasive bamboo, dying ash trees --- she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will.

Martha grew up at Omega Farm with her four sisters, five stepsiblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes…

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