Shipping news. Annie Proulx. 1994.

Quayle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident. Quayle heads for the land of his forefathers - the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With his delinquent daughters, Bunny and Sunshine, in tow. Quayle finds himself a part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama.