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Also by Sonja Yoerg:

The Family Ship, March 2021
Paperback / e-Book
True Places, January 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
All The Best People, May 2017
Paperback / e-Book
House Broken, January 2015
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The Family Ship
Sonja Yoerg

Lake Union Publishing
March 2021
On Sale: February 23, 2021
411 pages
ISBN: 1542004691
EAN: 9781542004695
Kindle: B08CMTYYPK
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Coming of Age

From the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of True Places comes a disarming and emotional novel about a family in distress and a daughter’s mission to keep it from going under.

Chesapeake Bay, 1980. Eighteen-year-old Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe, and her seven younger siblings are her crew. The ship—an oyster boat transformed into a make-believe destroyer—is the heart of the Vergennes family, a place both to play and to learn responsibility. But Verity’s had it with being tied to the ship and secretly applies to a distant college. If only her parents could bear to let her go.

Maeve and Arthur Vergennes already suffered one loss when, five years earlier, their eldest son, Jude, stormed out and never returned. Now Maeve is pregnant again and something’s amiss. Verity yearns to follow her dreams, but how can she jump ship now? The problem, and perhaps the answer, lies with Jude.

When disaster strikes and the family unravels, Verity must rally her sibling crew to keep the Nepenthe and all it symbolizes afloat. Sailing away from home, she discovers, is never easy—not if you ever hope to find your way back.

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