Even in unremarkable stories, we are remarkable.
Julian Monroe-the fourth of three children-learns the art of navigation on Lake Michigan, perfecting her trade aboard a Navy cruiser. But when she settles down, ferrying passengers between Maine and Nova Scotia, she questions her purpose, her life-navigational skills.
The ability to chart a course and then steer is intrinsic-we have it or we do not. But sometimes the richest destinations are those mapped by the wandering or by the lost.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Excerpt: Friday's 1-liner
Perhaps it is only by chance that he took up residence along the same meridian as Julian – his coast of Oregon, her coast of Maine. Neither could know how often he and she stood back-to-back, looking out upon their respective seas, separated by three thousand miles.
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