The Last Sailor is a short novel by Sarah Anne Johnson. I have a friend by that name which is why I chose the book even though I knew my friend was not the author. The story is set on Cape Cod in 1898. Nathaniel Boyd is a successful businessman on Cape Cod. He has three sons. The eldest, Nathaniel Junior, is in his 20's. He lives in grief on a marsh in Cap Cod in a hut he built himself. He lives hand to mouth catching fish and selling the fish. His second son, Finn, is married and runs a fish shop. His youngest, Jacob, drowned in a boating accident. Although Nathaniel Junior seems to be the one person in the family who can't get over the death of Jacob, that is not true because Finn and the elder Nathaniel are also altered by the loss of Jacob. No one in the Boyd family is the least bit happy or well adjusted. The best part of the book was the love the younger Nathaniel had for the sea, for the fish, for the beauty of nature, and living in the seasons on Cap Cod.
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