Cathie Pelletier is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including The Funeral Makers (New York Times Book Review Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize). As K. C. McKinnon, she has written two novels, both of which became television films. She lives in Allagash, Maine, in the family homestead where she was born.
Hilarious...Another wry comic turn from Cathie Pelletier. - The New Yorker A small marvel of a book... Mattie is the most touching, funny, and drily astute heroine to come along since the irresistible eccentrics of Eudora Welty. - Newsday It is Pelletier's gift to be able to coax the drama from stony ground without artifice or sentimentality. - Boston Globe