Washed ashore : family, fatherhood, and finding home on Martha's Vineyard / Bill Eville.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Boston : David R. Godine, Publisher, 2023Description: 249 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781567927382
- 1567927386
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 974.494 E93 | Available | 33111011268584 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The story of a man coming into his own by coming home.
Since he was a boy, Bill Eville knew he wanted two things in life: to be a writer and a father. Being a minister's husband had not been on this list, having left the church as a teenager as soon as his parents stopped making him go each Sunday.
In Washed Ashore , Eville's life changes when his wife Cathlin takes a job as the first female pastor of a 350-year-old church on Martha's Vineyard, the island that was once home to generations of his ancestors. With their two small children in tow, the couple begins a new life eight miles out at sea.
Readers follow Eville's journey from stay-at-home-dad to newspaper editor as he discovers what it means to be a writer, a father, and--after his wife's devasting breast cancer diagnosis--what it truly means to be a minister's husband. Washed Ashore , told in a series of linked essays, is poignant and funny, filled with faith, struggle, and light.