Publisher's Synopsis
Part contemporary sea tale, part fable, SEA HOME explores the boundaries between reality and the imagination and follows one woman's passage into a new life.
As a girl, Rosie Fields dreamed of a sea home-be it a pail of water, a river, a lake, or the ocean deep-that safe place in which to fulfill a sea change or even a metamorphosis. As a woman, lulled by the rhythms of work as a nurse, she loses sight of the dream until a stranger walks from the sea into her life. She embarks with him on a journey that takes her from a research vessel in Hawaiian waters to the landscapes of Italy, England, and the Azores. While her new love traces the evolutionary history of squids, she looks back on her own history-to the father who died when she was a child and to the nearly forgotten sea stories he told.
Rosie struggles to reclaim the stories, along with her past, and to find the sea home that lies seemingly beyond her reach.
