Susan Conley in Conversation with Elizabeth Garber about her new book Sailing at the Edge of Disaster: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Daring Year at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine.

“This book is a beautiful, high-stakes coming-of-age tale about survival on an old square-sailed rigger. It’s also a vivid, stirring reminder that again and again the natural world will reduce us to our most elemental selves and allow us to finally see and know who we are.” 

—Susan Conley, author of the New York Times Editor’s Choice Landslide and the memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune