Come celebrate the launch of Michael C. Connolly‘s latest novel, Ever The Twain Shall Meet. Set against a backdrop of Maine and America in the 1930s and 1940s, it’s a riveting tale of murder, love and survival told through the eyes of two people from different worlds – Norma, a Yankee, and Mike, an Irish immigrant, who overcome significant obstacles in the name of love.

Is it possible that Rudyard Kipling was correct when he penned the famous words, “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”? In this historical novel, a Maine survival story, two opposites do attract. Singly and together, they confront Kipling’s skeptical viewpoint. Against the backdrop of Maine and America in the 1930s and 1940s, the Yankee Twitchells and the Irish Folans forge their own paths forward. They overcome significant obstacles and challenges by the power of their respect, toleration, and determination. We seek hope, we seek love; combine the two, as in this love story, and you understand Norma and Mike. In our current time of discord and partisanship, like them we can surely do better.