Title: The summer I dared
First published: 2004
Description: On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old New Yorker Julia Bechtel, life and what's important in it are about to be forever altered when she survives a terrible boat accident en route to the island. Now, in the company of her aunt and daughter, Julia finds herself feeling strangely connected to the tragedy's other survivors -- Noah, a divorced lobsterman, and Kim, a young woman rendered mute since her rescue -- and newly outraged at the state of her marriage to a domineering man. Seeing the world with new eyes, Julia vows to embrace life with all of its joys and uncertainties. And the journey begins on Big Sawyer....
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Psychological fiction, Boating accidents, Lobster fisheries, Fiction, Shipwreck survival, Sea stories, Open Library Staff Picks, Accident victims, Lobster fishers, Survival, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Women, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Large type books, Maine, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general, Survival at sea, Fiction, sea stories
Places: Maine