BEST SPIRITUAL BOOK, 2021 NEW ENGLAND BOOK FESTIVAL AWARDS.
In 2001, during an interview on a Connecticut radio station, Steve Burt read "Tina's Tender Touch," a story he had published in Mature Living Magazine. The phones lit up, listeners begging for more. So he read "The Thumb Island Elephants," about a coastal community in a 1909 Christmas Eve snowstorm that had to come together to rescue an circus elephant and her baby who were trapped in...