Don’t Put the Boats Away: A Novel

KEY SELLING POINTS

* Women’s fiction comprises of almost half of all adult popular fiction sold in the US.

* The author’s last novel Eleanor’s Wars (2015) won 2016 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Best New Voice: Fiction and was praised by the Historical Novel Society.

* The number of women in the labor force has more than quadrupled since the late 1940s but women are still subject to unequal pay.

* The author wrote and edited the ground-breaking Women’s History Sources: a Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States (1979), which helped launch the field of women’s history.

* The American divorce rate is 827,261 divorces per year, impacting over 1.5 million adults every year. Almost half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce (National Center for Health Statistics).

* PTSD affects about 7.7 million American adults in a given year. Women are twice as likely as men to develop PTSD (National Institutes of Health Department of Veteran Affairs).

* Over 15 million adults ages 18 and older have Alcohol Use Disorder (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).

* The plot has connections to the locations of Madison, Wisconsin; Northfield and Minneapolis, Minnesota; New Brunswick, New Jersey; New York City; Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

AUDIENCE:

* Women and men ages 25+

* Feminists

* People interested in surviving divorce

* People looking for a story about resilience

* People interested in surviving PTSD

* Book groups interested in strong female characters

* Book groups interested in family sagas