Water Finds A Way: Award-Winning Novel

So writes the grandfather of the novel’s protagonist, Blake Alvares, in his final note to her–words that provide her a path out of darkness and from which this book found its final title.

As a person who feels deeply connected to land and place, I knew setting would feature prominently in my writing. For the characters in Water Finds a Way, the ocean is omnipresent, the thread that weaves past and present. While it functions as the source from which some derive their income, it is also a grave and a horizon, a threat and a refuge. Most importantly, it is the force that causes the lives of these very different characters to intersect in surprising ways.