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"It's the sixties. Everything's groovy. Teenagers bask in the freedom of a country transformed. Counterculture is on the rise, and the times, they-are-a-changing. Everything, that is, except the author's young life. She doesn't swoon for the Beatles or scream for the Stones. She doesn't protest the Vietnam War or fight for women's rights. Instead, from age seven to sixteen, she accompanies her father to a dilapidated barn on the edge of a dusty little town located on the outskirts of San Francisco, where she works after school, on weekends, and summers building a ship that is supposed to set her free. It is her father's promise of one day sailing the ocean on a three-year, around-the-world adventure that keeps her going. With the sixties and teenage torment as a backdrop, Unmoored is the parallel story of growth and redemption through the travails of a forty-four-foot schooner and the girl who helped guide it through storms, fire, near destitution and, ultimately, disaster, notwithstanding coping with a cold and moody father. But in the end, she learns that ""Heritage's worth, like ours, is not measured in terms of where she landed nor by what others thought of her, but in the attempt to get somewhere better than where she'd started. In that, she succeeded, and by default, so did we."""

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"""The fantasy of sailing a beautiful homebuilt schooner around the world obsesses a troubled father in this gritty memoir recounting how a brave sixteen-year-old, her mother, and her sisters crewed Heritage, a vessel that would become a crucible of overcoming."" -- ""Toby Neal, author of Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii"" ""An urgent voice, ironic sense of humor, and a beautiful ear for dialogue. If I could say one thing to the author of Unmoored, it would simply be, 'More, please.'"" -- ""Michael Zam, writer/co-creator of FEUD: Bette and Joan"""

"""An urgent voice, ironic sense of humor, and a beautiful ear for dialogue.'"" -- ""Michael Zam, writer/co-creator of Feud: Bette and Joan"" ""Turns the traditional family sailing saga on its head. Months of hardship at sea don't coalesce into emotional bonds. Instead, as a sixteen year old, the author faces down the truth that she must dig deep within herself to untether from a splintered family dream veering disastrously off course."" -- ""Cynthia Barrett, author of Three Sheets to the Wind"" ""The fantasy of sailing a beautiful homebuilt schooner around the world obsesses a troubled father in this gritty memoir recounting how a brave sixteen-year-old, her mother, and her sisters crewed Heritage, a vessel that would become a crucible of overcoming."" -- ""Toby Neal, author of Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii"""

The fantasy of sailing a beautiful homebuilt schooner around the world obsesses a troubled father in this gritty memoir recounting how a brave sixteen-year-old, her mother, and her sisters crewed Heritage, a vessel that would become a crucible of overcoming. -- Toby Neal, author of Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii An urgent voice, ironic sense of humor, and a beautiful ear for dialogue. If I could say one thing to the author of Unmoored, it would simply be, 'More, please.' -- Michael Zam, writer/co-creator of FEUD: Bette and Joan

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For more than thirty years, J. R. Roessl traveled the world, working as a model and commercial actor, before settling in the Hudson Valley to raise her family. She is a graduate of New York University, where she studied creative writing; Unmoored is her debut memoir. She currently resides with her husband and daughter in Pittsburgh. You can connect with J. R. Roessl through Facebook (@jrroessl), Instagram (@jr.roessl), and her website, JRRoessl.com. To contact J. R. for book club events or speaking engagements, you can reach her through her website. For more than thirty years, J. R. Roessl traveled the world, working as a model and commercial actor, before settling in the Hudson Valley to raise her family. She is a graduate of New York University, where she studied creative writing; Unmoored is her debut memoir. She currently resides with her husband and daughter in Pittsburgh. You can connect with J. R. Roessl through Facebook (@jrroessl), Instagram (@jr.roessl), and her website, JRRoessl.com. To contact J. R. for book club events or speaking engagements, you can reach her through her website.

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