Shipbuilder to Read New Labor Novel Set During Boston’s School Desegregation Fight

Jonathan Brandow, the Boston shipyard welder-turned-novelist, will be speaking at several bookshops in April and May in Maine. His new novel Goliath at Sunset takes place at the height of industrial decline and Boston’s school desegregation crisis in the mid-70s. The General Dynamics shipyard in Qunicy is scrambling to hire thousands of workers and for the first time labor laws mandate that it bring on hundreds of Black applicants. Fresh from the projects and a tour in Vietnam, new hire Mike Shea encounters a ruthless company and a union leadership whose militancy has faded with the years. Shea reaches across the yard’s explosive color line to join and then lead a movement for justice and respect.  Join Brandow to discuss the novel inspired by his nine years as a welder, activist and union officer at the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, MA.

Maine Conversation Schedule

Saturday 4/25: Shermans Book Store, Portland 1-3 PM Signing

Saturday 4/25: Shermans Book Store, Topsham 4-5 PM Signing

Friday5/1: Bull Moose Books, Lewiston, 1-2:30 PM Author Conversation

Friday 5/1: Hello! Hello! Books, Rockland 6-7 PM Author Conversation