Signals of Distress

“With beguiling narrative ease and prose lyric . . . a quiet tale of strangers thrown together by caprice . . . [who] find their lives are unintentionally and irreversibly linked.” — New York Times Book Review Signals of Distress tells the story of an American emigration vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830’s. While the Belle of Wilmington waits to be refloated, the isolated community of Wherrytown offers what hospitality it can to the crew, but the