We read this for Book Club and it was so well received by all of the women. I was not as gung-ho. The problem I had with the book was that it didn't delve as much into the history part as I would have liked. The story was based on the fact that Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodosia, was shipwrecked and never found again. From the NYTimes review:
Theodosia’s story is just one of two enigmatic plot lines in Michael Parker’s latest novel, “The Watery Part of the World.” The other is inspired by the real lives of the three last inhabitants of a barrier island in the Outer Banks, an attempt to explain what led these elderly people to abandon their homes and move to the mainland in the early 1970s.
Maybe I didn't give it enough attention; I was so busy at this time that I had trouble getting through it.
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