Bainbridge Island resident Beth Ann Mathews Shares Her Riveting New Memoir, Deep Waters

Bainbridge Island resident Beth Ann Mathews comes to Eagle Harbor Book Co. to discuss her new riveting memoir, Deep Waters.  Join us as Beth shares the dramatic events described in her memoir, the inspiration that led her to write about the events, and the life lessons learned from her family’s ordeal.

Advance praise for the book is growing:

“. . . a love story that comes at the reader with the gloves off and goes a full twelve rounds.”–LYNN SCHOOLER, critically acclaimed author of The Blue Bear and Walking Home;

“Mathews writes with poignant honesty about the challenges of marriage, family, and community in a moving story that highlights the strengths of human relationships. Deep Waters starts with a bang and just keeps going–lively, vivid, and personal.”–ROMAN DIAL, author of The Adventurer’s Son: A Memoir 

The evening will be a discussion of adventure, courage and determination, and ultimately great love.  RSVP now to ensure a seat.

About Still Waters

Marine biologist Beth Mathews’s adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy outdoors man husband suffers an extremely rare type of stroke. He survives due to his Beth’s courageous, quick decisions, but now his radical approach to recovery includes demands he and the family embark on ambitious sailing expeditions on the magnificent, yet unforgiving Gulf of Alaska.  Beth’s instincts tell her to keep him home and the family safe, while her husband demands they sail. How Beth navigates these divergent views will keep you turning the pages right to the end.