"Moving vignettes of striving to be a good husband, stay-at-home-dad and writer.In writing about the sweet and bitter particulars of his corner of the world, Eville has written a book about life itself." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "A memoir that reads like a long walk through the woods . Eville's writing is poignant, funny, and many times it makes my eyes water." -- Martha's Vineyard Times "Here is life: rich, raw, glorious and complicated. Bill Eville's experiences are at once singular--married to a minister, living on an island--but also universal. In this memoir, he writes about his ordinary, extraordinary existence with warmth, wit, elegance and heart." -- Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning author of March "A memoir of quiet genius.

Eville's openheartedness is on full display." -- Presbyterian Outlook "Storytelling takes creativity. But memoir requires courage. With creativity, courage, and vulnerability, Bill Eville holds up a mirror to himself--and in the process helps us all see a little piece of ourselves. He is still on the journey to home, still evolving. But through these pages shines the bright light of a great husband, a great father, and for me personally, a great friend!" -- U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock "A touching and heartfelt memoir that explores parenting, love, illness and faith with buoyancy and hope.

Like a visit to the Vineyard, it stays with you for a long time." -- Gary Shteyngart , author of Our Country Friends "There are few writers--people, in general--who can make us acutely aware that the very guts of our lives are constantly spilling out of us. It is the even rarer human-writer who can help us curate those hurts and joys and passions, to organize the unorganizable. Bill Eville is such a writer and Washed Ashore is a book I will never forget. It will make you appreciate your own life, and I'm not sure there is much more we can ask a book to do." -- Lisa Taddeo , author of Three Women.