Sea Crow Press Announces the Upcoming Publication of Sometimes an Island

CAPE COD, Mass. - Oct. 7, 2025 - PRLog -- Independent publisher Sea Crow Press is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Sometimes an Island, a luminous mosaic novel by Ellen Meeropol that spans generations and continents to explore belonging, displacement, and the human drive to endure. The book will be published on March 3, 2026, in paperback and ebook editions.

About Sometimes an Island
After Cossacks burn their home, ten-year-old Deborah and her father flee their shtetl to a remote island off the coast of Maine, seeking refuge and a new beginning. More than a century later, their descendants are uprooted once again—this time by rising seas and a collapsing world.

Told through a constellation of interwoven voices and timelines, Sometimes an Island traces the echoes of one family's flight and return. From the salt-stung shores of Penobscot Bay to the forests of inland Maine, a new community emerges: off-grid, interdependent, and bound by the fragile threads of memory. Family from Brooklyn, refugees from a fractured Massachusetts co-op, and islanders with deep local roots come together to imagine what survival—and belonging—mean in a world transformed by change.

Both gritty and lyrical, grounded and magical, Sometimes an Island asks a question that resonates across its pages: How do we navigate an uncertain future armed only with our memories, our hopes, and the bonds that hold us together?

Advance Praise
"With acute vision and deep soulfulness, Ellen Meeropol imagines the fate of our fragile planet. In this powerful, prismatic novel-in-stories, she weaves a layered portrait of humanity's capacity for love—and for destruction." —Debra Jo Immergut, author of You Again

"Told in a cascade of Greek chorus-like voices, Sometimes an Island is a chilling story of the world we live in and our precarious place in it." —Ann Hood, author of The Stolen Child

"Sometimes an Island embodies what Sea Crow Press stands for: writing that is rooted in place, voice, and the natural world," said Mary Petiet, founder of Sea Crow Press. "Its mosaic form reflects the way families and communities truly endure: in fragments, stories, and connections that persist even when the world shifts beneath them."

Details
FICTION| ECO-LIT| CLI-FI
List: $19.95
Publication Date: March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1961864504 (paperback), 978-1961864511 (Ebook)
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
Pages: 180
Distribution: US Simon and Schuster, UK Gardner's

About Sea Crow Press
Sea Crow Press publishes compelling fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with strong voice, deep heart, and a connection to the natural world. From the windswept shores of Cape Cod to imagined climate futures, our books inspire, engage, and endure.

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