Diary of an Alaskan Madam by Lorina Ewing

When they enter the tide rip off Harraman Entrance, where the crude petroleum has mixed with seaweed, drift logs, and rubbish like plastic bags and Styrofoam containers, it resembles some kind of hellish cesspool.

Oil and water, she finds herself repeating inanely, oil and water don't mix.

The stench of it scrapes the back of her throat. Traversing the oil spill is like motoring through a boundless sewer. The blurb: Influenced by her own experience during the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Mei Mei Evans' novel centers on a down-on-his-luck skipper and his lone deckhand as an oil spill threatens the coast community of Selby.Įxcerpt: 'Lee paces the deck. Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.By Mei Mei Evans (University of Alaska Press, $15.95)

Diary of an Alaskan Madam by Lorina Ewing