Mary Beth Keane
On this episode, Patti Callahan Henry & Ron Block welcome New York Times bestselling author Mary Beth Keane to discuss her brand-new instant national bestseller Whale Harbor, a sweeping multigenerational saga inspired by the author’s family history, following eleven brothers as they are set on different paths between Ireland, England, Montana, and New York. Mary Beth was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Half Moon, The Walking People, Fever, and Ask Again, Yes, which spent eight weeks on the NYT bestseller list and has been translated into twenty-two languages. She joins us from her home in New York to discuss Whale Harbor, which has gotten wall-to-wall starred reviews from Booklist (“all the cadence and lyricism of an Irish ballad”), Kirkus (“epic yet intimate”), BookPage (“pitch-perfect”), Publishers Weekly (“a revelation”), and Library Journal (“big-hearted”). We can’t wait to talk to Mary Beth about this month’s GMA Book Club pick which Clare Leslie Hall (Broken Country) calls “truly magnificent.”
