Sippewissett: Or, Life on a Salt Marsh Book

There are passages in Sippiwissett of clear, enveloping description that brought me fully into the scene and into the marsh the book explores. But there are also long sections of more abstract introspection and overwhelming strings of rhetorical questions -- whole paragraphs comprised of one after another -- and that made it hard to stay focused as I read. There just seemed to be too much going on here, between philosophical and theological speculations, family history, personal reflection, scientific explanations, environmental advocacy, etc. Each of those was interesting in its own right, but the sum of them just didn't come together for me in a cohesive way. I think because the style of writing varied so much from paragraph to paragraph and page to page -- a more consistent style might have pulled the disparate ideas and interests together.