Local author Ellen Meeropol will launch her sixth novel, Sometimes an Island, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 7:00 PM at Broadside Bookshop in Northampton. The novel weaves together voices and timelines, following a family’s flight from a burning shtetl to a remote island and their descendants’ later displacement by climate change. Sales from the event will benefit Climate Action Now.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information about this and other author events, visit Ellen Meeropol’s website.
Ellen Meeropol is a member of Straw Dog Writers Guild and the author of five previous novels.














