Join us for a conversation with Moscow-based author, Tara Karr Roberts to share about her latest book, Wild and Distant Seas. The program will be Thursday, Aug. 29, from 6 to 7 p.m.
The book follows four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures. Taking inspiration from Moby Dick, the novel begins with Evangeline Hussey, who has made a home for herself on Nantucket in the mid-1800s. 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.
Her choices ripple through generations, across continents, and into the depths of the sea, in a narrative that follows Evangeline and her descendants from mid-nineteenth century Nantucket to Boston, Brazil, Florence, and Idaho.
Tara Karr Roberts is a freelance writer, science writer, and newspaper columnist. She is a lifelong Idahoan who grew up along the Pend Oreille River and now lives in Moscow, Idaho, with her family. Tara Karr Roberts – Writer and Editor.
A Book For All Seasons will offer a book signing with Tara after the event with books available for purchase.
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