So Happy Together

Caitlin Hamilton Summie. [email protected] • Media campaign, approaching trades, key literary newspaper review sections like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Maine magazine, Portland Press Herald, Maine Women magazine; local and regional NPR; women’s media; Author’s on the Air and other podcasts; book bloggers and Book Tubers. • Events in Maine, Tucson and Boston, and elsewhere, depending on author’s budget. • FaceBook book club/group promotions and outreach. • Content marketing. • Ads/promotions to book clubs. • Marketing collateral—bookmarks, e-postcard. • Social media.

In Tucson in the 1960s, drama students Caro and Peter are inseparable, but Caro ends up marrying someone else. Twenty years and three children later, with her marriage failing, Caro drops the kids off at summer camp and sets out on a road trip to find Peter, her creative spirit, and her true self.As her stultifying marriage is unravelling, and in the midst of mourning the loss of her creative self, Caro Tanner has a nightmare about Peter, an old love whom she hasn’t seen in twenty years. She takes this as a sign he still needs her. With her three children safely off to summer camp, Caro embarks on a pre-Facebook, pre-cell phone road trip to recapture who she once was and what she thinks she once had.

Set in the rock ‘n roll ‘60s of Tucson, Arizona—when Caro and Peter were kooky, colorful, and inseparable drama students—and in the suburban ‘80s, when Caro’s creative spark has been quenched to serve the needs of her husband and children, So Happy Together explores the conundrum of love and physical attraction, creativity and family responsibilities, and what happens when they are out of sync. It is a story of missed opportunities, the alluring possibility of second chances, and what we leave behind, carry forward, and settle for when we choose. It sits in that complicated, confounding, beautiful place where love resides.