If you enjoyed Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift, then you might also like these books suggested by our discussion group members:
The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute
The Water is Wide: A Memoir by Pat Conroy
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local--and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Tillerman Cycle by Cynthia Voigt
You might also enjoy watching this video created by Jeff Leeds Cohn from The Atlantic series The Atlantic Selects posted June 1, 2018 at https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/561587/tangier-island/. In it, viewers meet several of the residents of Tangier profiled in Swift's book and see beautiful footage of the island's landscape. The film has an elegiac tone in keeping with Swift's title Chesapeake Requiem.
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