A review by disasterchick
Spartina by John Casey

3.0

Read this for the Kansas Humanities Book Discussion or I probably never would have found this book. I liked the book, but really didn't care for any of the characters. Dick is a grump. May has no backbone. Elsie could have had so much potential as a character. Overall, I think this was suppose to be about the love of the sea that only generations of fishermen have similar to the love of the land that generations of farmers have. Being from a landlocked state I probably had a harder time identifying with this novel, but it seemed to be more about building the Spartina and class-rage. I did have to look up when the Andrea Gail sank because I was beginning to think about The Perfect Storm. This was written in 1989 and the Perfect Storm occurred in 1991.