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Wild and Distant Seas
Wild and Distant Seas
Author: Tara Karr Roberts
Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island’s small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed -- but now Hosea is gone, lost...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781324064886
ISBN-10: 1324064889
Publication Date: 1/2/2024
Pages: 304
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 9
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I enjoyed the beautiful writing and the Nantucket setting. I appreciate magical realism sometimes (Alice Hoffman) but it didn't work for me here. I felt like the women's powers were a cheat used to advance the plot. I appreciated the resoultion of the ending but won't be adding this book to my keeper shelf.

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