Families at Risk: Two Novels

Anne Korkeakivi‘s The Shining Sea, is a decades-spanning story about the ripple effects of war, the passing down of memory, the making of myth, and the power of the ideal of heroism to lead us astray but also to keep us afloat.  Sabina Murray’s Valiant Gentlemen: A Novel reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward’s extraordinary wife, the Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford.