{"id":9167,"date":"2026-07-08T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=9167"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:15:18","slug":"author-talk-heather-abels-the-emilys","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/author-talk-heather-abels-the-emilys\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Talk: Heather Abel&#8217;s The Emilys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join author Heather Abel and writer and podcaster Gabriel Roth for a conversation about Heather&#8217;s new novel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Emilys<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Inspired in part by Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, the novel follows two mothers searching for answers to a mysterious illness while navigating family, community, and the natural world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audience Q&amp;A will follow. Books will be available for purchase from Edgartown Books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This program is free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Heather Abel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the author of the novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Optimistic Decade<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her husband and teenagers and teaches creative writing at Smith College. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join author Heather Abel and writer and podcaster Gabriel Roth for a conversation about Heather&#8217;s new novel, The Emilys. Inspired in part by Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, the novel follows two mothers searching for answers to a mysterious illness while navigating family, community, and the natural world. Audience Q&amp;A will follow. Books will be available for purchase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-9167","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}