The Winterpoor

In a unique and groundbreaking novel that gives voice to the silent residents of Cape Cod, Murdo Peters, an artist and Cape native, must struggle for his own sanity and freedom as he tries to care for a mentally challenged and neglected boy while also salvaging the floating studio of a long-dead artist, navigating a doomed marriage, and attempting to make his own art. All this on the real Cape, not the sunny beaches and lighthouses of the tourist resort, but the dark Cape of the off-season, its environment stressed by pollution and greedy developers, its year-round residents racked by storms, addiction and poverty. As the perils to himself, to the boy, to Daisy (his new love interest) threaten to overwhelm them all, Murdo must draw on his deepest reserves of courage and hope to defeat the demons of his past and defend the people, and the peninsula, he loves.

George Michelsen Foy is the author of 14 published novels: the latest, The Last Green Light, in May of 2024 with Guernica Editions; other novels were published by Viking Penguin, Bantam Doubleday, University Press of New England (as GF Michelsen), Éditions Globophile (Paris), Bastei Lubbe (Germany); and 3 works of non-fiction (Scribner / Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan / Flatiron). His long-form non-fiction has been published in Harper’s, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, etc.; fiction in Notre Dame Review, Ep;phany Journal, Washington Square Review, etc. He has worked as illustrator and editor (for the International Herald Tribune and the Cape Cod Register, among others); also as merchant marine officer, commercial cod-fisherman, lobsterman, construction worker and factory hand. A native of Cape Cod, he was educated at the London School of Economics and Bennington College’s MFA program, teaches creative writing at New York University, lives in Barnstable County, is a recipient of an NEA fellowship in fiction and other awards, and finds writers’ biographies amusing.