Book Review
Seaweed Chronicles (2018)
by Susan Hand Shetterly
I bought this book at an independent bookstore in Castine, Maine, several years back on vacation and read it this year, also on vacation. Seaweed Chronicles is a great example of what I call "New Yorker lit" or books that seem like a New Yorker feature extended to book length. Here, the subject is seaweed, its uses and (potential) abuses, written from a variety of perspectives of people who live on the coast of Maine. It starts out from the perspective one might expect: efforts by locals and multi-national corporations to harvest what might seem like a limitless resource. Seaweed is a valuable commodity, though not a monolithic one, as I learned from Seaweed Chronicles there are several different types of seaweed, depending on where you are.
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