Local author Jennifer Dupree will discuss her recent book, What Do You Want From Me?
When her father’s former lover falls down the stairs on Halloween, Maeve finds herself torn between protecting her mother and seeking the truth. As Maeve juggles caring for her aging, unstable mother while managing the demands of her own family, dark questions about the past arise. Did her mother really cause the accident, or is it just a tragic coincidence? And what will Maeve do with the truth when she finds it? This suspenseful novel explores the complexity of family loyalty, memory, and the haunting influence of long-buried secrets.
Jennifer Dupree is an assistant editor for The Masters Review, a librarian, and a former bookstore
owner. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from USM’s Stonecoast program. Her work has
appeared in December, Solstice, The Masters Review, On the Rusk and other notable places. She
is the winner of the Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest for 2017, and a two-time winner of a Maine
Literary Award (2022, 2006). Her debut novel, The Miraculous Flight of Owen Leach, was
published in April of 2022.