Mattie Fiona Blue, recently widowed and filled with grief, spins a tale of her beloved husband, Nick - his birth , his death, his love of the sea, his haunted fear of a family legend of drowning, and their romantic, unflagging devotion to each other. In Mattie's courageous and stubborn telling of the story, we find the book's true power: its quiet insistence that the living and the dead, the past and the present, the ancient and the yet-to-be, co-exist within us through memory, story and myth.
While mourning Nick, Mattie tells us of her own life as she journeys from the loneliness of a broken home and a disapproving mother to the chaotic, mythic, abundant sphere of Nick Blue and his sprawling Greek-American fishing family, whose ties to the sea extend across generations, continents and time.
An exploration of grief and transcendence, 'Remembering Blue' is an unforgettable, beautifully told story.
