And She Was

<p>Sweeping across centuries and into the Aleutian Islands of Alaska's Bering Sea <em>And She Was</em> begins with a decision and a broken taboo when three starving Aleut mothers decide to take their fate into their own hands. Two hundred and fifty years later by the time Brandy a floundering trashy Latin-spewing cocktail waitress steps ashore in the 1980s Unalaska Island has absorbed their dark secret--a secret that is both salvation and shame. </p><p>In a tense interplay between past and present <em>And She Was</em> explores Aleut history mummies conquest survival and the seamy side of the 1980s in a fishing boomtown at the edge of the world where a lost woman struggles to understand the gray shades between heroism and evil and between freedom and bondage. </p>