Kate Braestrup

Carpe Tuesday Book Group will discuss "Here If You Need Me" by Kate Baestrup.

Join Kate Braestrup, author of "Here if You Need Me," a heart-warming memoir of her travels from grief to chaplain to search-and-rescue workers. Tea and cookies will be available.

"A heartening book."Kirkus Reviews

"...we trust her, we believer her, and we believe, therefore, in her unbelievable hope."Bangor Daily News

Kate Braestrup is one of the first chaplains ever appointed to the Maine Warden Service. She is the author of a novel, Onion, and has written for ... (more)Mademoiselle, Ms., City Paper, Hope, and Law and Order. She in lives in Maine with her husband, Simon van der Ven, and their six children.

Maine Search and Rescue chaplain Kate Braestrup's memoir of her life as a young widow and mother, and her ordination as a Unitarian Universalist minister, Here If You Need Me: A True Story (Little, Brown), was a Booksense pick, and a favorite of Elliott Bay customers and booksellers. We're thrilled that ... (more)she is now here with the paperback release of her luminous book.

"Receiving multiple starred reviews "Here is you need me" tells of the author's experience of losing her husband and finding a new life as Chaplin to Maine's game wardens."