![]() ![]() We follow Una as she experiences the world, partaking in her own adventures, which eventually lead her to Captain Ahab and beyond. It is here that the story picks up in its momentum. ![]() Her religious differences with her father finally lead her parents to send her to New England, where her Aunt and Uncle maintain a lighthouse on a small island. Raised by a liberal, Quaker mother, and a fundamentalist Christian father, somehow Una grows up agnostic. The first 100 pages or so dragged as you first meet Una as a young girl living in the Kentucky frontier. Through the eyes of Una, we are given a glimpse into mid-19th century America, a time when abolition was beginning to gain momentum, whaling was an acceptable trade, and transcendentalism abounded (at least in Una's realm).Īlthough slow to start, I ultimately enjoyed this epic novel. ![]() With this first sentence, Sena Jeter Naslund sets the scene for a historical novel that brings the female perspective to an American classic, Moby Dick. First sentence: Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last. ![]()
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