48 Days to Barbados
- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2026
Summary
48 DAYS TO BARBADOS IS VISCERAL: THE SMELL OF ONIONS PERMEATING A SLEEPING BAG, THE TASTE OF SULFUROUS WATER, THE SOUND OF WATER AGAINST THE HULL…IT’S A COURAGEOUS TALE ABOUT HOW WE FIND OURSELVES BY LOSING OUR BEARINGS.
- KIMBERLY KING PARSONS, Bestselling Author Of We Were The Universe
In 1999, 28-year-old Karson Brown and her best friend embarked on what they thought would be a simple adventure: helping a woman they’d never met navigate her thirty-four-foo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781967038343 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1967038341 |
| Author: | Karson Brown, Jessica Keaveny, Steph West |
| Publisher: | Red Fern Press |
| Imprint: | Red Fern Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 127mm x 203mm |
Critics Review
“48 DAYS TO BARBADOS IS VISCERAL: THE SMELL OF ONIONS PERMEATING A SLEEPING BAG, THE TASTE OF SULFUROUS WATER, THE SOUND OF WATER AGAINST THE HULL…IT’S A COURAGEOUS TALE ABOUT HOW WE FIND OURSELVES BY LOSING OUR BEARINGS.”
- KIMBERLY KING PARSONS, Bestselling Author Of We Were The UniverseKarson Brown
Karson Brown grew up sailing and living aboard boats in the Pacific Northwest. She turned twenty-one on a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea and crossed the Atlantic Ocean aboard a thirty-four-foot sailboat during hurricane season before turning thirty. Karson raised her two children along the shores of Vashon Island, surrounded by a menagerie of critters. She is a writer, photographer, artist, and lifelong devotee of water. She currently resides on Alki Beach, collecting shells and befriending seagulls. Karson has two short stories in the upcoming Vine Leaves Press 50 Give or Take Anthology, coming out November 2025. Red Fern Press will publish Karson’s debut memoir 48 Days to Barbados on May 12, 2026.
Steph West is an award-winning writer and editor, and festival-accepted director and producer. She was a former Gannett/USA Today Network and Fox Sports Ohio reporter, covering the NHL and Columbus Blue Jackets for five seasons, and appearing on Blue Jackets Live as a special guest correspondent. West has won multiple Society of Professional Journalists, Cleveland Press Club, and AP awards, including seven Ohio SPJ awards in 2021 for the creative team she led as Vice President of Content at 614 Media Group. She is also an Emmy-nominated (regional) film producer and director with two Silver Telly Award credits for her work leading the video portion of a veteran’s project with the Columbus College of Art + Design. West won the 2025 gold medal in sports fiction from the North American Book Awards for her hockey novel The Third Period. In 2023, she won the WIFVNE Sports Screenplay Contest (first and second places) for Clean Break (football) and The Third Period (hockey), and the Firebird Book Award Competition for her debut memoir On Fire.
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