Little Ships: A Novel

Written by Sandra Scofield

Narrated by Nora Dorsey

After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their grandmothers appear the very next day to scoop up the girls and their inconsolable father, Nick, and take them home to small-town Oregon. The women are full of loving resolve, but good intentions are small guns against the waves of adolescence and the young family's shocking history. Besides, the women--at ages sixty and seventy--are at their own crossroads. Across the months of spring, Nick reels from heartbreak and guilt; the sisters drift apart in the shoals of middle school; three marriages are tested; and the grandmothers seek new footing, in their own lives and with each other. There is no best way forward, but making-do offers the girls a path to the future; and the women discover they have surprising futures of their own yet to live.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archieboy Audiobook Production
• Release date: May 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9781456650797

Sandra Scofield

Sandra Scofield, a former teacher, grew up in west Texas and now lives in Oregon. Her story “Trespass” was included in The Ploughshares Reader: Stories for the Eighties and was cited in Best American Stories 1984. Another story, “Private Rights,” won a Katherine Ann Porter fiction prize in 1985. Other fiction and poetry have appeared in many magazines, including Redbook, Calyx, the Missouri Review, and Descant.