Book Club (w/ author Marilyn Sigman!) Entangled: People & Ecological Change in Alaska’s Kachemak Bay

We are excited to share that author Marilyn Sigman will be in Seldovia for this Book Club meeting! We will discuss her book, and it’s a great chance for you to ask questions.

We have one copy available for checkout, or purchase your own copy at a 10% discount from the Homer Bookstore. (Be sure to mention it’s for book club.)

Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth – from seals and shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut and salmon – in Alaska’s iconic Kachemak Bay.

Kachemak Bay is a place where people and the living resources they depend on have ebbed and flowed for thousands of years. The forces of the earth are dynamic here: they can change in an instant, shaking the ground beneath your feet or overturning kayaks in a rushing wave. Glaciers have advanced and receded over centuries. The climate, like the ocean, has shifted from warmer to colder and back again in a matter of decades. The ocean food web has been shuffled from bottom to top again and again.

In Entangled, Sigman contemplates the patterns of people staying and leaving, of settlement and displacement, nesting her own journey to Kachemak Bay within diasporas of her Jewish ancestors and of ancient peoples from Asia to the southern coast of Alaska. Along the way she folds in scientific facts about the region as well as the stories told by Alaska’s Indigenous peoples.