LISA KRISTOFF
The cover design of Carol Parker’s debut novel by Fresh Design.
Author Carol Parker. Courtesy photo
Reincarnation. Some believe, some don’t. In Carol Parker’s debut novel, “The Fish Dress,” the influence of a past life, or lives, can explain a lot about what’s influencing us in our current lifetime.
Carol lived in Boothbay Harbor from 1988 to 2004. She taught remedial reading to students attending Boothbay and Wiscasset schools while raising her kids, Stephanie and Gregory. Having known Carol and how fond she was of this place, I wasn’t too surprised to find the novel is set in a thinly disguised version of Boothbay Harbor, called Rocky Harbor.