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Book SynopsisThere is real life in Sarah Anne Johnson''s new book, and genuine family drama too, all grounded in an authoritative evocation of old Cape Cod''s waterways, marshes, and waterfront towns. The Last Sailor is memorable, clearly seen, and deeply felt.Jon Clinch, author of Marley and Finn
From the author of The Lightkeeper''s Wife comes a poignant and powerful historical novel about grief, redemption, and brotherhood set on the shores of Cape Cod.
Cape Cod, 1898: All that Nathaniel Boyd wants is to be left alone. His hopes of marriage died years ago, not long after the storms and the seas and the sails took away his youngest brother. He''d rather be in the marshes of Cape Cod, with their predictable rhythms and no emotion. The Cape doesn''t blame him for the accident.
The other Boyd brother, Finn, dives headlong into his fish trading company, trying to prove something to himself. When their father asks the brothers to sail a schooner down from Boston to their harbor village, he
Trade Review
"There is real life in Sarah Anne Johnson's new book, and genuine family drama too, all grounded in an authoritative evocation of old Cape Cod's waterways, marshes, and waterfront towns. The Last Sailor is memorable, clearly seen, and deeply felt." - Jon Clinch, author of MARLEY and FINN
"[T]he narrative benefits from rich regional and period details." - Publishers Weekly
"Explores the profoundly personal ways we deal with - or avoid - mourning, and the struggles we go through as we piece our lives and relationships back together after sudden and tragic loss." - Provincetown Independent
