{"product_id":"the-sea-glass-shore-9780988265790","title":"The Sea-Glass Shore","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen Jack, librarian and folklorist, meets Rona, she puts aside her sealskin to live as his human wife. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jack knows all selkie stories end the same: the seal-woman finds her stolen skin and leaves. But he hasn't stolen Rona's skin, and they both believe their relationship is different. Making a family together seems easy and obvious--until time, children, and a threat to Rona's home shore endanger everything they've promised to each other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost selkie stories are about the beginning or the end, but this one is about the middle. How do you live with a family past of people disappearing into the sea? How do you avoid the same wrong act everyone has committed before you? And what is love--for a spouse, a child, a mortal world--in the face of history? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a mythic, contemporary Pacific Northwest shaped by Native and European storytelling, artist communes, and corporate fakelore, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea-Glass Shore\u003c\/i\u003e is a domestic fable about the power of the past and the making of a daily present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Forest Avenue Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780988265790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342","brand":"Julie Salmon Kelleher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774262309045,"sku":"9780988265790","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sea-glass-shore-9780988265790","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}