The Green Apple Sea

In the summer of 1944, with the world at war and the Mississippi River boiling beneath her boots, Brenda Wellers runs a rusted riverboat alone. Once petite and pretty, she's now all grit and grease-hauling freight, dodging men who don't think she belongs, and mourning two brothers swallowed by a foreign sea.

But when a final telegram arrives-one last death she can't stomach-Brenda does the unthinkable. With the docks of New Orleans behind her and a fading dream ahead, she turns the bow of the Clara June toward the open Gulf, chasing a place she once read about in a torn magazine...a place called The Green Apple Sea.

What follows is a haunting and lyrical journey of defiance, grief, and the quiet longing to disappear. Part Southern Gothic, part river-noir elegy, this novella burns slow and deep-like diesel in the blood.

About the Author:

Born in New Orleans, Romer Shaw is a historical fiction writer. He is considered a leader in the modern Southern Gothic Revival. Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively throughout the American Deep South and Latin America, his work primarily focuses on two areas: the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s, and the relationship between the United States and Latin America and the effect American Imperialism has had on those countries. He is deeply passionate about Anthropology and American-Southern History. His favorite backdrop for any novel is the Mississippi Delta, the area between Memphis and New Orleans.