TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Tara Karr
TI  - Wild and distant seas: a novel 
SN  - 9781324064886
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - Widows
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Whaling
KW  - Sailors
KW  - Memory
KW  - Magic
KW  - Nantucket Island (Mass.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Magic realist fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - "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 at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to glimpse and re-form the recent memories of those who would cast her out. One night, an idealistic sailor appears on her doorstep asking her to call him Ishmael. He seeks only a warm bed and a bowl of chowder, and yet suddenly, unsettlingly, her careful illusion begins to fracture. He soon sails away with Ahab to hunt an infamous white whale, and Evangeline is left to forge a new life from the pieces that remain"--
ER  -