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A Family’s Ghosts on the High Seas | Salt Lake City News
A Utah author’s debut novel, “The Responsible Party,” dives into a century-old family mystery: two of her ancestors survived or perished in shipwrecks—Fanny Mounsey in 1914 and her daughter Sarah on the Lusitania in 1915. Inspired by a woman claiming to be Fanny who appeared in an almshouse, Carusillo blends history with fiction, weaving it with a modern-day Claire grappling with her own secrets. After a decade-long journey, she celebrated the book’s release at her newly opened community hub, Storyboard—a bookstore, skate shop, and coffee house she co-founded—with overwhelming local support…
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