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A Manhattan corporate attorney, with career and marriage in turmoil, drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together, he meets a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land threatened with development, a fight that eventually endangers her life. The tension between past and present comes alive as he finds new meaning in life through the natural world and social justice for a long-oppressed race of people. The novel takes place ion the eastern end of Long Island, the ancestral home of the Montauks, a Native American tribe. The story reveals how they lost their land to the settlers and historical characters come to life in a battle to preserve their land.

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The Last Resort depicts the spiritual journey of a broken man who replenishes his spirit and finds his true self in reconnecting with the natural world. In scenes of surfing in the wild ocean, the blossoming of a romance, and the struggles of the native Montauketts to reclaim their ancestral land, Liss captures the essence of Montauk in all its raw beauty. With luminous prose embedded with philosophical ruminations and Native American truths, this haunting, dreamlike narrative will linger long in the reader's consciousness. -Celine Keating, author of Layla and Play for Me, and co-editor of On Montauk: A Literary Celebration In this narrative of the spiritual journey undertaken by an exhausted, emotionally drained city lawyer, Kay Liss introduces the insightful perspectives of a cast of memorable characters-Native Americans of Montauk, a young surfer, an old fisherman. Their stories are deftly woven together with the writings of renowned philosophers and conservationists, and set in a stunning, elemental landscape at the tip of Long Island. The result is a probing and thought-provoking look at how we can become separated from the natural world, and how we can begin to find our way back to the freshness, fulfillment, and freedom it offers once we realize where we belong. -Jayne Gordon, public historian, educator, former director of the Thoreau Society The Last Resort is a lyrical ode to the power of nature to heal. The story takes the reader on a fascinating exploration of the history and culture of the Montaukett people and their ties to the land. -Kay Hardy Campbell, author of A Caravan of Brides: A Novel of Saudi Arabia

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As a writer and editor, Kay Tobler Liss worked for newspapers and magazines in New York and Maine for many decades, including Sunstorm Arts, House and Hamptons Magazine, and was managing editor of The Shelter Island Reporter. Liss studied Literature at Bard College and Environmental Studies at Southampton College and taught courses in both fields in New York and Maine. She won a prize for her poetry at 17 years old, and was published in the Smith College literary magazine. She lived in Montauk, New York for 13 years and now lives in Maine.

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