Of Sea and Cloud by Jon Keller (Tyrus Books, 2014)
"Nicolas Graves raised his sons to be lobstermen. Bill and Jonah Graves grew up aboard their father’s boat—the Cinderella—learning
the rules and rites of the antiquated business they love. But when
their father is lost at sea and the price of lobster crashes worldwide,
Bill and Jonah must decide how much they are willing to risk for their
family legacy.
Standing against them is Osmond Raymond— former Calvinist minister, mystic, captain of Sanctity,
and their father’s business partner for more than twenty years.
Together with his grandson and heir, Julius, Osmond is determined to
push the Graves family out of their lobster pound, regardless of the
cost or the consequences.
In the tradition of Russell Banks’ Affliction, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News or Philipp Meyer’s The Son, Of Sea and Cloud is
a powerful, haunting novel that, with extraordinary depth and
compassion, explores the relationships between fathers and sons,
tradition and change, and the surprising ways in which globalization is
affecting some of the most isolated harbors on this planet." --publisher's blurb
This book (which has been getting great reviews all over the place and was launched at the
Gilford Public Library) is set in Maine, where author
Jon Keller lives part of the year.
Lobstering goes on in New Hampshire as well and Keller will be talking about his book on Saturday, July 18, 2015 at
The Country Bookseller in Wolfeboro so I decided to feature
Of Sea and Cloud this week.
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