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A review by sparklelys
Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan
5.0
"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story..."
Told both in the moment from several lenses and 180 years later in the artifact discovery and creation of a museum exhibit about the boiler explosion and sinking of the Pulaski steamboat, Surviving Savannah is about intertwined stories and not just surviving but genuinely living after a traumatic event. When everything is supposed to be very prosaic and routine, and then suddenly isn't, we have choices to make. I love Patti's deep dives and the way she writes places, in this case including some incredibly tactile descriptions of days in a lifeboat or afloat on flotsam, and an underwater dive to the shipwreck.
Bonus: Karl the Kraken, the Bookmarks mascot, approves. His kin (or himself? kraken are remarkably long-lived) make an appearance on page 2.
Told both in the moment from several lenses and 180 years later in the artifact discovery and creation of a museum exhibit about the boiler explosion and sinking of the Pulaski steamboat, Surviving Savannah is about intertwined stories and not just surviving but genuinely living after a traumatic event. When everything is supposed to be very prosaic and routine, and then suddenly isn't, we have choices to make. I love Patti's deep dives and the way she writes places, in this case including some incredibly tactile descriptions of days in a lifeboat or afloat on flotsam, and an underwater dive to the shipwreck.
Bonus: Karl the Kraken, the Bookmarks mascot, approves. His kin (or himself? kraken are remarkably long-lived) make an appearance on page 2.