Ship of Fools

Brief Summary

"Ship of Fools" by Katherine Anne Porter is a novel set in the summer of 1931 on a ship sailing from Veracruz, Mexico, to Bremerhaven, Germany. Among the passengers — a failed artist, a disillusioned journalist, a bigoted businessman, and a desperate young woman. All of them are locked together in a slow-motion disaster, as the voyage drifts toward its conclusion, so does the world, sliding into fascism and war.