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Lynn Kiele Bonasia

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Lynn Kiele Bonasia is the author of two novels set on Cape Cod. Summer Shift (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster), about a woman who runs a New England clam bar, is scheduled for release on June 1, 2010. Her first novel, Some Assembly Required (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster), came out in 2008. Prior to that, Lynn sold her soul as a freelance advertising copywriter.

Technically a “washashore,” Lynn moved to the Cape as a teen and graduated from Nauset Regional High School in North Eastham. Upon graduation, she set out to seek fame and fortune, or at least to acquire some sort of formal education (a BA in journalism at the University of Massachusetts), find love, become an advertising copywriter, which she was able to do as a freelancer once h...more


The other day I found an old photo of me as a kid, red-cheeked with sun bleached hair, arms wrapped around a Dressy Bessy doll. It had been taken in front of the Town Crier Motel on Route 6 in Eastham, where my family spent many a summer week. We’d tried other motels for our annual trek to the Cape but my parents loved this one for its indoor pool and game room that gave us a Plan B in the even... read more »
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Published on April 06, 2010 00:00 • 6 views
Average rating: 3.20 · 358 ratings · 89 reviews · 3 distinct works
Summer Shift
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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Some Assembly Required
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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Countess Nobody
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011
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April 2012, Lynn Kiele Bonasia
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? LB: Happy to be here. Hoping to stick around. SS: What is your motto or maxim? LB: Everything in moderation. Sounds like a snooze, but it served my nonagenarian relatives well. What Re..." ...More

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Excerpt from Summer Shift (June 2010) (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 11, 2010 01:39pm
Description: Read and excerpt from my forthcoming novel. At the end of Chapter Four, 44-year-old Mary Hopkins is reeling from the death of an employee, a young waitress who, unbeknownst to Mary, had had a child. Add to this, a mysterious visit from a long lost love earlier in the day. Now, she’s about to learn her secret crush from last year has a mystery girlfriend of his own.
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The other day I found an old photo of me as a kid, red-cheeked with sun bleached hair, arms wrapped around a Dressy Bessy doll. It had been taken i... read more »
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date: July 09, 2010 09:30AM
location: tbd, Osterville, MA, The United States
description: One of 3 authors presenting and signing books. Others tba.
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Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
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The Chester Chronicles by Kermit Moyer
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The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
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Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
Last Night at the Lobster
by Stewart O'Nan
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"Mary woke at her desk with a crick in her neck and the mud taste of tobacco in her mouth. How many h" …more
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