I loved Ahab's Wife, from it's memorable opening sentence all the way to the end. A wonderful historical of the sea, Nantucket, and whaling. It's been a couple of years since I've read it, but it's spurred me on to a revisit to Nantucket, and the books March, American Bloomsbury, and the Scarlet Letter, all connected by Melville, Emerson, Hawthorne.