GORHAM, ME – Nick Fuller Googins is the author of the novels The Great Transition (chosen for this year’s ReadME program) and The Frequency of Living Things (out August 12!). The Great Transition is a “richly imaginative, immersive, and electrifyingly relevant debut novel [that] follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future.”

The Frequency of Living Things is “a heartbreaking American epic about three sisters who unearth lifetimes of family tensions as they are forced to rescue one of their own from peril, testing the limits of sacrifice, sisterhood, and forgiveness.” 

His short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Men’s Health, The Sun, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He lives in Maine, and works as an elementary school teacher. 

Read ME is a statewide summer reading program offered by the Maine Humanities Council, Maine State Library, and Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance that gets Maine’s adults all reading the same books — by Maine authors and recommended by Maine authors.

August 27, 6:00 pm