The Boat of Dreams

Written by:Richard Preston
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THE BOAT OF DREAMS opens with this line: "The hauntings in our trailer began before Christmas, 1969, in the months after we learned that Dad had died in a rice paddy in Vietnam." The narrator, thirteen-year-old Will, lives in a Glidemaster trailer in New Harbor, Maine with his younger sister Lila and his widowed mother, Sarah Ann. When William Foster, Sr. died, he left behind his lobster boat, named after his wife, and his hopes that Will Jr. would one day man the boat with him.