Zora in Bloom is a father daughter coming of age story, set in Martha’s Vineyard in the early nineteen nineties. Told from the point of view of a sixteen year old narrator, the story unfolds in the month of August, and focuses on the relationship between Zora and her charismatic, womanizing father, Caleb. Central to the story, is Zora’s connection to her two literary “godmothers,” the novelist, Zora Neale Hurston and the playwright, Lillian Hellman, her deceased mother’s favorite writers. Their writings inform her decisions and opinions as she wrestles with her emerging womanhood, her relationship with boys, and her admiration for a flawed but loving father. By the end of their annual vacation, spent every year in their beloved oceanfront Victorian house in historic town of Oak Bluffs, Zora has witnessed her father’s painful affair with a legendary, real life author and bloomed in a woman, “in the likeness” of her literary heroines.

• Zora in Bloom (6/4/2013) - “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston
  
  Who do we have in this life to guide us? When our families have passed on their wisdom, shared their secrets, and left us to discover for ourselves.

A Martha’s Vineyard Love Story
Kathleen McGhee-Anderson and Skip Finley

Dale Eden and Kaylan Warner fall in love on Martha’s Vineyard in 1967, the summer before they leave for college. Totally opposite in outlook and ambition, they are thrust together over the years as they return to the bucolic seaside retreat. Their story evokes memories of the changing face of Martha’s Vineyard’s African American summer community.