Line of Flight
Now available for pre-order . . .
And please join me for my book launch on November 17 at the Museum of Worcester!
When her estranged daughter runs off to France to volunteer in the Great War, recently widowed Simone Levitsky barely survives the sinking of the Lusitania as she embarks on a desperate, dangerous search along the Western Front that forces her to confront a lifetime of loss and the true cause of their bitter parting.
Publishing on November 17, 2026, Line of Flight explores the intricate dance of mother-daughter relationships during a time echoing our own—a period of massive upheaval that cracked social boundaries, strained family bonds, challenged faith, and forced a reckoning with everything held dear.
Evelyn Herwitz has been telling stories since childhood, when she entertained her sister with songs about a dancing ant. For her own two daughters, now grown, resilient women, she concocted tales of talking moths and chipmunks; from them, she learned hard parenting lessons that inspired Line of Flight.
Evelyn taught feature writing at Clark University in her hometown of Worcester, Mass., and has told stories professionally as a public radio and award-winning print journalist, a marketing and communications specialist, and an author. Her environmental history of Worcester, Trees at Risk (Chandler House Press, 2001), was cited as “a major historical work with a strong environmental message.”
Now devoted to writing fiction, she is a graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Generator in Boston. Her stories have been published in Chautauqua, The Writing Disorder, and Embark Literary Journal. Line of Flight is her first novel.
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