Book Review: ‘The Unsinkable Greta James: A Novel’ By Jennifer E. Smith

The debut novel from Jennifer E. Smith is a hearfelt novel about overcoming grief and putting the past behind you and moving forward. The setting of a cruise to Alaska works great for the story. Great James is a musician and has had a successful album. When her mother dies suddenly it knocks her for a loop. She has never been that close to her father and then she has a meltdown during a concert that goes viral. And now a year later her father is going on a cruise (it was planned while her mother was alive) and Greta goes along to keep an eye on him (she doesn’t want to go). While on the cruise Great meets an author named Ben and they get close. Greta also has it out with her father and old wounds are brought to the surface. By the end of the cruise everyone’s lives will be changed.

You can pick up The Unsinkable Greta James in stores on Tuesday, March 1st from Ballantine Books.