Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Pages
274
Description
Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their trans-Atlantic ocean liner, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's.
Original publication date
2012
Media reviews
Rogan writes viscerally about the desperate condition of the castaway, of what it is like to be “surrounded on four sides by walls of black water” or to be so thirsty your tongue swells to the size of “a dried and hairless mouse.” But it’s her portrait of Grace, who is by turns astute,
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conniving, comic and affecting, that drives the book. Show Less
Awards
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2014)
Maine Readers' Choice Award (Longlist — 2013)
Guardian First Book Award (Longlist — 2012)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction/Poetry — 2012)