The summer I dared

By Barbara Delinsky

Subjects: Open Library Staff Picks, Maine, fiction, FICTION / Family Life / General, Fiction, general, Psychological fiction, Large type books, Shipwreck survival, Accident victims, FICTION / Women, Manners and customs, Lobster fisheries, Survival, Boating accidents, Fiction, Social life and customs, Lobster fishers, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Sea stories, Fiction, psychological

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....