Across the Crying Sands: The Women of Cannon Beach
By (Author) Jane Kirkpatrick
Center Point Large Print
Center Point Large Print
1st August 2025
Large Print Edition
United States
Hardback
500
Width 146mm, Height 222mm
In 1888 Mary Edwards Gerritse is a cheerful, well-read, witty, and confident young woman who spends as much time as possible outdoors on the rugged Oregon coast where she and her husband, John, are making a home. The two are a formidable pair, working hard to prove up their homesteading claim and build a family.
But as Mary faces the challenge of young motherhood and struggles with questions about her family of origin, she finds the fearless girl she once was slipping away. Life feels less like the adventure she thought it would be and more like a daily struggle.
When Mary loses the baby shes carrying (and nearly her own life in the process), she finds an unconventional way to bring the joy back into her life: by taking over a treacherous postal route. As Mary becomes the first female mail carrier to traverse the cliff-hugging mountain trails and remote crying sands beach, with its changing tides and sudden squalls, she recaptures the spark she lost and discovers that a life without risk is no life at all.