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Four generations of women use their magical gifts to search for and complete the family they each long for, with Moby-Dick as the novel's starting point. Evangeline Hussey, a young widow, runs an inn and chowder house on Nantucket in 1849, where she puts up a sailor named Ishmael and his companion, Queequeg. Evangeline has a brief affair with Ishmael until he signs on to the doomed whaling ship Pequod. He is long gone ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More