In Smith & Taylor Classics' beautiful new edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of Pointed Firs (1896), a woman tries to finish her manuscript in a small fishing town on the coast of Maine, but quickly finds herself diving deep into the ties of community that bond the town together. For lovers of Anne of Green Gables, this new edition of Jewett's Pointed Firs features a conversation between the wicked-smart Brandy Jensen and Stephanie Hershinow in place of a purely academic introduction. Continue the conversation with Brandy and Stephanie at Octavia Books, in a night promising a candid and lively talk of Jewett's spellbinding story, the taciturn and eccentric and tender-hearted characters at the heart of it, and why you should read the book with a lobster roll in hand.