BATH

Bath native and former Patten Free Library employee Morgan Callan Rogers will read from her book and sign copies of her debut novel, “ Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea,” at 6: 30 p. m. Wednesday in the library on Summer Street.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

A library release describes to novel as follows: “ Told from the perspective of Florine Gilham, in a Maine dialect, the story begins right before Florine’s mother disappears forever. Carlie, as Florine calls her mom, originally hails from Massachusetts, unlike her father Leeman, a lobster fisherman who goes back generations on The Point, the village on the Maine coast where the novel is set. Unlike Leeman, whose very essence seems to be tied to The Point, Carlie is always on the move. Exuberantly pretty, she works as a waitress at the Lobster Shack and disappears one weekend while on a yearly vacation a few hours away with her best friend and fellow waitress. The mystery of her disappearance tears both Florine and Leeman apart, and Callan Rogers details the grief that both unites them and isolates them with superb nuance and skill. … Though she continues to suffer heartrending losses, Florine is buoyed by her fiercely loyal band of friends and her seaside community, and grows into an astonishingly strong, fearless and honest young woman.”

Callan Rogers grew up in Bath and now splits her time between coastal Maine and South Dakota.