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Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha's Vineyard

Washed Ashore: Family, Fatherhood, and Finding Home on Martha's Vineyard

Current price: $26.95
Publication Date: May 16th, 2023
Publisher:
David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN:
9781567927382
Pages:
256
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Description

The story of a man coming into his own by coming home.

Since he was a boy, Bill Eville knew he wanted two things in life: to be a writer and a father. Being a minister's husband had not been on this list, having left the church as a teenager as soon as his parents stopped making him go each Sunday.

In Washed Ashore, Eville's life changes when his wife Cathlin takes a job as the first female pastor of a 350-year-old church on Martha's Vineyard, the island that was once home to generations of his ancestors. With their two small children in tow, the couple begins a new life eight miles out at sea.

Readers follow Eville's journey from stay-at-home-dad to newspaper editor as he discovers what it means to be a writer, a father, and--after his wife's devasting breast cancer diagnosis--what it truly means to be a minister's husband. Washed Ashore, told in a series of linked essays, is poignant and funny, filled with faith, struggle, and light.