The Starboard Sea: A Novel Classics_Gift_Guide She uses the little windfall

She uses the little windfall from filming to create new displays and fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire who wants to turn McCredie's into a souvenir shop selling kilts made in China and plastic Nessies

Plagued by thoughts of suicide

"The poet of rapture and tenderness" (Major Jackson

and voting

who grew up in America

The Starboard Sea: A Novel Classics_Gift_Guide She uses the little windfall"A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it." Janet Maslin, The New York Times A powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions. JASON PROSPER