The Sea-Glass Shore - Julie Salmon Kelleher

The Sea-Glass Shore - Julie Salmon Kelleher

Julie Salmon Kelleher

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Published 15 October 2026

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  • Pages · 342 pages, Illustrations
  • Publication Date · 15/10/2026
  • Genre · Myth & legend told as fiction
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When Jack, librarian and folklorist, meets Rona, she puts aside her sealskin to live as his human wife.��Jack knows all selkie stories end the same: the seal-woman finds her stolen skin and leaves. But he hasn't stolen Rona's skin, and they both believe their relationship is different. Making a family together seems easy and obvious-until time, children, and a threat to Rona's home shore endanger everything they've promised to each other.�Most selkie stories are about the beginning or the end, but this one is about the middle. How do you live with a family past of people disappearing into the sea? How do you avoid the same wrong act everyone has committed before you? And what is love-for a spouse, a child, a mortal world-in the face of history?�Set in a mythic, contemporary Pacific Northwest shaped by Native and European storytelling, artist communes, and corporate fakelore, The Sea-Glass Shore is a domestic fable about the power of the past and the making of a daily present.

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