Special Giveaway: THE MAP OF TRUE PLACES by Brunonia Barry

OOOOOOOO!

Have I got a treat for you!

HarperCollins is offering for giveaway

 two (2) copies of the new release

THE MAP OF TRUE PLACES
by Brunonia Barry.

This is her highly anticipated second novel,

 and you don't want to miss it!

Details for entering are below -- but note

 -- it's a short giveaway!

Entries close in one week -- at 11:59 p.m.

on Wednesday, May 12, 2010.

“It is not down in any map;

true places never are.”

––Herman Melville

THE MAP OF TRUE PLACES

by Brunonia Barry

Pub. Date: May 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover, 416pp
Sales Rank: 13,656
ISBN-13: 9780061624780
ISBN: 0061624780

Description (from the publisher):

Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats—a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She's now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She's also about to marry one of Boston's most eligible bachelors. But the suicide of Zee's patient Lilly Braedon throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she though she'd left behind.

What starts as a brief visit home to Salem after Lilly's funeral becomes the beginning of a larger journey for Zee. Her father, Finch, long ago diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, has been hiding how sick he really is. His longtime companion, Melville, has moved out, and it now falls to Zee to help her father through this difficult time. Their relationship, marked by half-truths and the untimely death of her mother, is strained and awkward.

Overwhelmed by her new role, and uncertain about her future, Zee destroys the existing map of her life and begins a new journey, one that will take her not only into her future but into her past as well. Like the sailors of old Salem who navigated by looking at the stars, Zee has to learn to find her way through uncharted waters to the place she will ultimately call home.



Click to visit www.themapoftrueplaces.com

About the author (from the publisher):
Brunonia Barry, author of the beloved New York Times and international bestseller The Lace Reader is back with The Map of True Places, an emotionally resonant novel of tragedy, secrets, identity, and love. The moving and remarkable tale of a psychotherapist who discovers the strands of her own life in the death of a troubled patient, The Map of True Places is another glorious display of the unique storytelling prowess that inspired Toronto’s Globe and Mail to exclaim, “Brunonia Barry can write. Boy can she write.”

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• Leave a comment on this post telling me you would like to win. Include an email address with your comment so that I can contact you if you do win. Use a spam-thwarting format such as geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com or geebee.reads [at] gmail [dot] com

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• Winners must provide a U.S. or Canadian street address -- No P.O. Boxes.

• Deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 2009.

• Winners will have 48 hours to respond to my email announcing that they have won; if I don't hear from a winner, I will draw another name.

Thank you to Katrina at Wiredset

for making this giveaway possible.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!