One of our true friends and a person that we just love is out with her latest book. This is her, I believe, fifth, and it's a very unusual setting. We always have an odd one in the crowd, so it's kind of odd. Excitedly odd. See that strike you as a little bit odd. No, it doesn't strike me as a little bit odd. It's the Bob and Sherry Oddcast with stuff we wouldn't, couldn't, or shouldn't do on the regular show.

Now, here's the Oddcast.

Sherry is off right now, but I am just delighted to be talking with Martha Todd Dudman, who lives in Maine, and is the author of Dawn expecting to fly, a wonderful book, Black Olives, and a book that so many people

were so touched by Augusta Gone, which was adapted to an award-winning film. She has a brand-new

book out, Sunrise and the Real World. And Martha is with us right now. Martha, before we get into

this, I should have also said you're famous for being the second person in the world. And Martha is with us right now. Martha, before we get into this, I should have also said you're

famous for being the second person in the world to pick up the Bob and Sherry show.

Which was my great good fortune.

That's sweet of you to say many, many years ago. And so let's talk about sunrise and the real world. I'm just

going to read from the back cover so folks get an idea. When Lorraine, a recent college graduate,

starts work at a residential treatment center for troubled teens, she quickly finds yourself

absorbed into a world very distant from the idyllic

lobsters and lighthouses fairy tale that she's always associated with Maine. Instead,

she discovers a landscape of abused and angry teenagers, illicit romance, and danger. Still,

she grows to love the place and its people until events shatter her confidence

in the world and her own mortality. Years later, disinhearted and battered by life, Lorraine is

unexpectedly drawn back to that world to confront the person she was, the choices she made,

and the bitter ghosts that still haunt her.

I'm halfway through the book, so that is tantalizing for me.

When you and I were emailing, you said that I will notice some of the locations.

And boy, indeed I did.

Northwest Harbor is where Lorraine lives. And it's been called by Esquire Magazine, the preppiest village in America. And it still has

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