Maine novelist Morgan Callan Rogers has a real need for writing: “I had this voice,” she says. “She just kept talking to me.” That voice was Florine Gilham, the main character of her debut book, Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea. Released through Viking Press this month, Callan Rogers’s narrative pulls us vividly through 320 pages of empathetic adolescence, startling loss, and kindling love.

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