{"product_id":"saltwater-mary-eyring-9781469685380","title":"Saltwater: Grief in Early America","description":"Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Grief is not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their lives were a kaleidoscope of small-scale tragedies that suffused and colored everyday experiences. This pervasive suffering was exacerbated by unfamiliar environments and exposure to the anguish of Indigenous and Black Americans, unsettling well-worn frameworks to produce new dimensions of everyday grief. Mary Eyring traces these fleeting, often mundane, glimpses of grief in the archives--a note about a sailor maimed during a whaling voyage, the hint of a miscarriage in a court record, the suggestion of domestic violence within a tract on witchcraft, a house sent up in flames at the opening of a captivity narrative--to show how the cumulative weight of grief created a persistent mood that influenced public and private affairs in sweeping ways largely unexamined by previous scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith piercing insights and evocative prose, Eyring follows grief across generations and oceans to reveal a language of suffering understood and shared across diverse early American communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Eyring\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469685388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469685380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mary Eyring","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46293160689919,"sku":"9781469685380","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2c4bd9fe-d21e-4932-84d0-f231016b0536.jpg?v=1730212305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/saltwater-mary-eyring-9781469685380","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}