Dogfish Memory: Sailing in Search of Old Maine
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Dogfish Memory: Sailing in Search of Old Maine

“An exquisite memoir about lost love and the sustaining grace of the sea.”—T.C. BoyleThe Maine dogfish are gone—fished to the brink of extinction. Gone too is Linda Jane, and with her the love and the subjunctive Maine that they might have shared.
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