Inland Northwest writer Tara Karr Roberts is already receiving major acco lades her for debut novel\, Wild and Distant Se as\, which is inspired in part by Moby-Dick. Roberts wil l be joined in conversation with local author and Writing Education Specia list Sharma Shields. Auntie's Books will sell signed copies.
\nAbout the book:&n bsp\;
\nEvangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket\, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island&rsquo\;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&mdash\;but now Hosea is gone\, l ost 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 rec ent memories of those who would cast her out.
\nOne night\, an ideal istic sailor appears on her doorstep asking her to call him Ishmael. He se eks only a warm bed and a bowl of chowder\, and yet suddenly\, unsettlingl y\, 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 li fe from the pieces that remain.
\nHer choices ripple through generat ions\, across continents\, and into the depths of the sea\, in a narrative that follows Evangeline and her descendants from mid-nineteenth century N antucket to Boston\, Brazil\, Florence\, and Idaho. Moving\, beautifully w ritten\, and elegantly conceived\, \;Wild and Distant Seas \;takes \;Moby-Dick \;as its starting point\, but Tara Karr Roberts bring s four remarkable women to life in a spellbinding epic all her own.
\n< p>About the author:\nTara Karr Roberts is a freelance writer\, news paper columnist\, and journalism and English instructor at the University of Idaho. She is a lifelong Idahoan who grew up along the Pend Oreille Riv er and now lives in Moscow\, Idaho\, with her family.
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