Swampscott Writer Launches Her Second Novel

Deahn Berrini's How To Earn Your Keep explores the lives of a brother and sister finding their way in difficult times on the North Shore.

  Friends and fellow writers joined Swampscott's Deahn Berrini at a book launch Thursday at Gaga Gallery, sending her new novel How To Earn Your Keep into the larger world. The 60 or more gallery guests included Deahn's writers' group, students in her writing class, local poets and others with a stake in words and art. The evening celebrated the author and her book with wine, fine food and conversation, much of it on the novel. Back when Deahn was writing How To Earn Your Keep, writers' group member Lana Owens read each of its chapters many times. She said the book is a world within a world on the North Shore of Boston, revolving around a brother and sister in their twenties who are dealing with tough economic times and facing moral …

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