Kathryn Harrison Bücher

1915 kommt der Wetterforscher Bigelow nach Alaska. Ganz allein macht er sich daran, eine Messstation aufzubauen, deren Daten die Grundlage für die amerikanische Wettervorhersage bilden sollen. Bigelow liebt die Stille, doch als sich im Oktober die Eisdecke zu schließen beginnt und das Postschiff nicht mehr kommt, zieht es ihn in der Einsamkeit der langen Winternächte unwiderstehlich zu einer einheimischen, schweigsamen Frau. Schließlich traut er sich, an ihre Tür zu klopfen, und sie lässt ihn ein. Es beginnt eine seltsame Liebesgeschichte. Die Sprachlosigkeit, die Ruhe und Eigenwilligkeit der Aleutin wecken in Bigelow eine schmerzliche Leidenschaft. Wie groß diese tatsächlich ist, merkt er erst, als sie eines Tages verschwunden ist.

In Shanghai 1878 wird der kleinen May brutal die Füße gebrochen, um ihren Heiratswert zu steigern. Doch sie kämpft um ihre Eigenständigkeit und muss schließlich ihren Körper verkaufen, was sie auf eine Reise vom Shanghai des 19. Jahrhunderts über London bis zur Riviera der 1920er Jahre führt.

The story centers on the deep connection between a young girl and her Nana, nurtured within the enchanting setting of Nana's magical garden. This vibrant backdrop serves as a catalyst for their relationship, highlighting themes of love, growth, and the wonders of nature.

Dr. Kathryn Harrison, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, focuses on environmental policy and governance. Her expertise lies in the intersection of politics and ecological issues, where she explores the complexities of policy-making and its implications for sustainability. Harrison's work contributes to the understanding of how political frameworks can address environmental challenges effectively.

Exploring the complexities of familial relationships, the narrative delves into the dynamics of love, conflict, and reconciliation within a family. Characters grapple with their pasts while navigating the challenges of their present, revealing secrets that test their bonds. Themes of identity, belonging, and the impact of shared history are central, offering a poignant reflection on what it means to be part of a family. The story unfolds with emotional depth, inviting readers to contemplate their own connections and the frames that define them.

In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes and Running in the Family, a memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard -- a childhood at once privileged and unusual, filled with the mementos and echoes of their impossibly exotic and peripatetic lives.Kathryn Harrison always understood that her family was beyond eccentric -- they'd breached the bounds of the unconventional. She was largely raised by her grandparents in an outsized Tudor confection of a house on the periphery of Bel Air, which she thought of as "Sunset," her kingdom of the imagination, inhabited by the past and its numberless artifacts. True wandering Jews, her grandparents had arrived in Los Angeles in the forties after dramatic, globetrotting lives. Harry Jacobs had been a fur trapper in Alaska, a soldier in the trenches of the Great War, a traveling salesman in a Model T. Margaret Sassoon had lived a privileged life as a member of a Jewish merchant family in Shanghai, turning down offers of marriage from Russian princes exiled by the Revolution. Kathryn Harrison grew up in an almost mythical realm of their letters and artifacts and stories -- until declining finances forced to sell the house on Sunset in 1971, and night fell fast. On Sunset seeks to recover that childhood, that place, those lives -- and does so with piercing poignancy.