Sea Room

The Novel

"The fog that day stayed offshore.  It loitered round Bucksmaster Neck and the dozen or so little islets and rocks ringing it, and it brooded in Jericho Bay. The air throbbed with the sound of fog horns punctuating the steady, underlying thrum of lobster boats going about their business. "
                                                                                -Chapter 1                                        
 (Lobster Boat in Fog off Swan's Island, by David Pomerantz) 

Set during and after World War II, Sea Room chronicles three generations of the Dupuy family living on the rugged coast of Maine, harvesting crops from the land and lobsters from the sea. The Dupuys live traditional lives of quiet honor and warm simplicity

… until the war ravages their peaceful existence.

When Gil Dupuy enlists in the Army, his parents, wife and son Jordi are left to fight on the home front. Gil’s feisty mother, Zabet, grows food and organizes scrap drives to engage the enemies of her son. His young wife, Lydie, battles against loneliness and temptation.  And his father, Pip, a World War I veteran, struggles to protect the family from the harshest truths of war.  Together, Pip and Jordi keep alive Gil's dream by building a fine sailboat, their way of salvaging beauty from the chaos and agony of war.

The very hardships that draw the family together also strain its bonds; and each of them is somehow forced to define what it means to live with integrity...even when, for one, it means facing a charge of murder.

Told in luminous and vivid prose that captures the rugged coast of Maine—the salt air, the cold embrace of fog, the ebb and flow of the tides, and the turn of the seasons—this is a timeless story about being pushed to the limits of adversity and fighting for the freedom to set your own course...the freedom of sea room.
                                    -From the Jacket Cover of Sea Room

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          Sea Room ISBN 1-931561-07-9.  

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