It was March. The snow was dirty brown and the sun was absent in Bangor. Amy Lewis Faircloth was spending a lot of time on her sofa, channel surfing and landing nowhere. Her sister Joanne Lewis called from Florida. “Wanna write a book together?” 

Faircloth wrapped an afghan around her and yawned from lack of blood flow to her brain.

“Sure,” was the best response she could muster.

Faircloth is a lawyer by day and single mom to two teenage boys by day and night. Her oldest is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism which has been of mixed blessings to her life. Lewis is also a lawyer. Faircloth had the experience and her friend had the literary background. “Wicked Good” was conceived.

This is a story of a single mom who struggles to solve the puzzle of a son with Asperger's syndrome. It is a touching, winsome comic melodrama. Rory Falcon is a bundle of exasperating eccentricities: perpetual pacing, mile-a-minute talkativeness, an obsession with lawn mowers and antique gas cans, an incorrigible refusal to follow instructions or tolerate constraints, all combined with a good heart that only his adoptive mother Archer can see. 

Faircloth is the first 2013 speaker for the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library’s Literary Luncheon Series Friday, Jan. 11 at 11:45 a.m.

She travels from just outside of Bangor, where she lives with her two sons and three dogs. Beyond helping people through divorce, guardianship, and adoptions, she is the attorney for the Penobscot Nation Child Support Enforcement Agency and serves as the Penobscot Nation Domestic Violence Legal Advocate. 

She is vice president of the Board of the Bangor Humane Society and serves on the school board of SAD 22 (Hampden, Newburgh and Winterport). 

If you are interested in attending Amy’s presentation on January 11, please register at the library any time during their business hours of Tuesday 10 a.m. to 4:30, Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. To 7 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

Cost of the lunch, provided this time by Oak Street Provisions, is $10. For more information, call the library at 207-633-3112 or email Barb House at barbh@bmpl.lib.me.us. Registration deadline is Thursday, Jan. 10. Reserve early as space is limited.