When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man (Hardcover)

from countrylife

Like creeping fingers of fog slowly wrapping their tendrils around you as you stumble forward along a rough coastline in the dark, unnerved by foghorns and splashes of frigid waves. That is what this story feels like. Young Cal can't get enough of Robert Louis Stevenson. His father reads it to hi...

from whitreidtan

I have always been attracted to the sea but also wary of it. It is the source of life, often benevolent, but it can turn threatening and violent in an instant swallowing lives whole. Those people for whom it is a source of income hold a healthy respect for it, always conscious that it can both gi...

from sduff222

Crab fishermen, family love, and prisoners - this novel has it all! I finished this book yesterday, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It's a haunting portrait of home, family, and loyalty. Even if you run away, can you really shed your childhood? It may be a theme that's been wel...

from GypsyJon

I won this book in the Early Reviewers process. Very interesting and well written. It deals with a teen age boy, trying to figure out what his life means. His father is a fish boat captain gone for months at a time. His Mom, is a California girl, who is not totally sure why she married his father...

from strongstuff

A spooky, damp setting; an engaging, twisting plot; pretty bits of prose. There's much to like about this debut by Nick Dybek. And I wanted to get swept away at the edge of the world by a dark mystery. But, somehow, I wasn't. Ultimately, the characters just weren't believable. The relationships s...