Description
“… a collection of quiet power, one that finds meaning in life’s small reckonings and hard-won moments of understanding. A stunner.” — BookView Review
“… a powerfully evocative set of short stories…” — Diane Donovan, Sr. Reviewer for Midwest Book Review
Bodies of Water collects fourteen stories from a writer who has spent a lifetime paying attention. The settings range from a nursing home in suburban Illinois to a Greek fishing dory in the Ligurian Sea, from the Ore Mountains of East Germany to the banks of False Creek in Vancouver. The characters are equally various: firefighters and phlebotomists, art dealers and wood turners, a Haitian nurse’s aide, a Bosnian refugee, a ventriloquist’s dummy buried in a California garden.
What connects them is water — and what water has always represented in human life: danger and sustenance, memory and forgetting, the boundary between the life you have and the life you might have chosen. Each story places a character at that boundary and watches, without judgment and with great precision, what they do next.
Some jump. Some surface. Some reach for the phone. All of them are unforgettable.
Official release date, Nov. 2, 2026. Ebooks on sale now.