What to Read Now: The Gulf
One day, before The Isolation, I was wandering through the MacIntosh Books & Paper shop, and I noticed an attractive, large tome written by Jack E. Davis, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea . MacIntosh owner Rebecca Binkowski had displayed the book prominently on a wall, so it was easy to notice. I opened the book to a random spot and began to read. The writing was beautiful! I tested a few other random pages, and declared out loud, “This is a great book!” Rebecca responded by telling me that it had won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018, and that the author had made a few appearances on Sanibel in recent years. I don’t buy books often because the Cooley household already is home to thousands of books. But I knew this one deserved a place of honor on my shelves that store books about Florida – after I read it, that is. As I read it, I kept telling my husband Tom about it. By the time I was finished, he said he just ha...