Books

Second Book by Kay Tobler Liss

Coming Home: A Novel

Four generations of a family return to cherished places in nature from their youth and uncover buried secrets about themselves. From the coast of North Carolina to New York, from Savannah, Georgia to Switzerland, the special places include a meadow, a pine grove, a river, and mountain valley. Their journeys begin after a Christmas dinner and end a year later when they share their stories with each other and start to heal as a family. They finally face a pivotal event–the death of a sibling and son. The most valuable lesson they learn is that nature can not only be a source of beauty and solace but of personal transformation and expanding compassion for all life.

First Book by Kay Tobler Liss

The Last Resort: A Novel

My first novel, “The Last Resort,” published in July 2020 by Plain View Press, is about a Manhattan corporate attorney who, with career and marriage in turmoil, drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island, New York. As he struggles to put his life back together, he meets a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land in danger of development, a fight that eventually endangers her life. The struggle between his past and present comes alive as he finds new meaning in life by connecting to the natural world and fighting for the rights of a long-oppressed race of people.

The novel was nominated for a Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2021.