**In 1913, a powerful and dangerous storm descends on the Great Lakes โ and three sisters find their lives transformed amid the chaos in this "superb, character-driven adventure" (Publishers Weekly) inspired by true events!** Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freight
Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury
โ Scribed by Kinley Bryan
- Book ID
- 115094972
- Publisher
- Blue Mug Press
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781737915201
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โฆ Synopsis
In 1913, a powerful and dangerous storm descends on the Great Lakes -- and three sisters find their lives transformed amid the chaos in this "superb, character-driven adventure" (Publishers Weekly) inspired by true events!
Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream--to open a restaurant back home--but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves.
In Sunny's Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who died in an accident she believes she could have prevented. Burdened with regret and longing for more than her job at the dry goods store, she looks for comfort in a secret infatuation.
Two hundred miles away in Cleveland, the youngest sister, Cordelia Blythe, has pinned her hopes for adventure on her marriage to a lake...
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