Board a ship that travels between real time where lives are buffeted by political conflict, tragedy and loss and another mysterious time where pain is healed, and love is eternal.
Dreams of Drowning
by Patricia Averbach
Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism
Dreams of Drowning is a work of magical realism that
moves between real time where lives are buffeted by political
conflict, tragedy and loss and another mysterious time where pain is
healed, and love is eternal.
It’s 1973 and Amy, an
American ex-pat, is living as an illegal immigrant in Toronto where
she’s fled to escape the scandal surrounding her twin sister’s
death by drowning. Joanie’s been gone two years, but Amy still
hears her cries for help. Romance would jeopardize the secrets Amy
has to keep, but when she meets Arcus, a graduate student working to
restore democracy in Greece, she falls hard. Arcus doesn’t know
about Amy’s past, and she doesn’t know Arcus has secrets of his
own, including the shady history of an ancient relic he uses as a
paperweight.
In 1993 Toronto, Jacob Kanter, a retired
archaeologist, is mourning his dear wife and grappling with his son’s
plans to move him to a nursing home. Despite double vision, tremors,
and cognitive impairment, he remembers sailing as a youth and sets
out toward the lake where he boards a ferry boat embarking on its
maiden voyage. He expects a short harbor cruise, but the Aqua
Meridian is larger than it looks, and time is slippery on the water.
When he hears a drowning woman call for help his story merges with
Amy’s, and they discover they have unexpected gifts for one
another.
Patricia Averbach began her writing career at sixteen as the entirely unqualified literary assistant to Anzia Yeszierska, Jewish-American author of the immigrant experience. A native Clevelander, she’s a former director of The Chautauqua Writers Center in Chautauqua, New York. Her upcoming novel, Dreams of Drowning (Bedazzled Ink, 2024), was a finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books and Chanticleer’s Somerset Award for Literary Fiction. Previous novels include Painting Bridges (Bottom Dog Press, 2013) and Resurrecting Rain (Golden Antelope Press, 2020.) Her poetry chapbook, Missing Persons, (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) was cited by Times of London Literary Supplement (November 2014) as one of the best small collections of the year. She lives with her husband in a suburb of Cleveland when she’s not visiting her daughters in Toronto, Maui and Peru or hanging out in a virtual world called Second Life. To learn more go to http://www.patriciaaverbach.com.
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This sounds like a book that I would really enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like something I could get into this summer!
ReplyDeleteThe cover looks amazing. Sounds like a good story.
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