May 18, 2022

One Bird Books Announces

LITTLE HOURS: A NOVEL

BY LIL COPAN

WINS NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD

Little Hours — The Massachusetts South Shore novel touching on Red Sox baseball,birding, and spirituality, released in 2021 by One Bird Books — is the 2022 Nautilus Gold Award Winner in the Fiction/Small Press category. Nautilus celebrates books that support conscious living, positive social change, justice, and spiritual growth. The Book Awards honor highly esteemed authors and publishers from around the world and past winners include Barbara Kingsolver, Thich Nhat Hanh, Desmond Tutu, and Louise Erdrich. The 2022 awards saw a record number of entries and a magnificent diversity of high-quality books. View the full list of 2022 winners on the Nautilus Book Awards website.

The novel is a wonder! Formally, literarily, and spiritually, it's just staggering.—Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God

Gorgeously written, Lil Copan's luminous new book will do wonders for your soul.—James Martin, author of Building a Bridge and Becoming Who You Are

In Little Hours, Lil Copan observes humans as closely as her nuns observe baseball and birds—which is to say her delight in her characters is an act of prayer. And what characters they are: finely drawn, indelibly comic, charming, irascible, forbidding, wise. And foolish, as we all are, in most compelling, most believable, ways. —Carlene Bauer, author of Frances and Bernard

This is one of the best models for spiritual companionship I’ve seen in print. It’s a profound book. I hope that my listeners will pick it up and will love it as I have loved it. –David Dault, host of Things Not Seen radio show and podcast

BIO

Lil Copan is an editor, arts columnist, and painter. This is her first work of fiction and brings together longtime interests in baseball, birding and spirituality. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, Lil has degrees in art and creative writing. She leads workshops on writing and creative nonfiction. A long-time Bostonian, she now lives in “the city different”—Santa Fe, New Mexico--with her partner.

PUBLISHED BY ONE BIRD BOOKS

One Bird Books, Falmouth, Cape Cod, Publisher, Mary Kane

323 pages | 5.25” x 8” | $18.99 Paperback |$15.99 ebook