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Professor K. Raikes Joins Ranks Of Faculty Authors
Professor of Humanities, Kimberly Raikes,
published her first novel, The Quadrant: At the Mother of Waters, last spring, moving
her into a select group of faculty authors. The novel is the first in a 3-volume narrative
set in 19th century New England and on the high seas. Against a backdrop of conflicting
traditions and beliefs, the shared account traces the unveiling merger of three dissimilar
mariners ­ a Maine sea captain, a ship's doctor, and a Welsh gypsy ­ whose lives
and cultures eventually coalesce, even as this convergence divides their families and
communities. The Quadrant takes place over many years and a wide range of locales from
the underground dance halls of Boston's waterfront to the Romany campsites of North
Wales, from the heights of Rio de Janeiro to the beachheads of Angier, revealing a hard-
fought victory of human wholeness over social convention, conflicting responsibilities,
self-doubt, and separation at sea. In the harsh and unyielding historical context ­ one
which holds a mirror to societies today ­ this story poses questions still critical to readers:
can persons of opposing backgrounds conquer the barriers that divide them? Can their
transformations in turn transfigure the communities around them?
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