Written in 1993, this short novel
is a tender romance with a sad secret.
Leah is a fortyish unmarried scientist who feels burned out. She is taking some time out from her research
job to spend the winter at the summer cottage on the ocean that she has
inherited from her immigrant parents.
Walking on the beach one day, she sees Ollie struggling with and
overweight and distraught woman who has suddenly thrown herself into the ocean. She helps him retrieve the woman, who turns
out to be his mentally challenged sister, Sally, and Leah and Ollie form a tentative friendship
which slowly blooms into something more.
212 pp.
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