Two novels. Two very different journeys. One continuing interest in what people carry, what they lose, and what happens when they try to come home to themselves and to one another.
A Woman in the Wild
Thea Firth arrives at the Institute for Healing and Transformation carrying guilt, estrangement from her daughter, and questions she has not been able to answer. The arrival of a silent man who had lived in the wilderness with a bear turns those questions outward and back toward her own life.
On Wine-Dark Seas
Odysseus has returned to Ithaca, but the story is not over. Told by Telemachus, On Wine-Dark Seas looks at the man behind the legend and the father, son, wife, and family left to live with the consequences of war, absence, violence, and homecoming.
This blog will explore the ideas inside both novels, including forgiveness, family conflict, wilderness, grief, guilt, fathers and sons, myth, homecoming, identity, memory, responsibility, and what it takes to move forward when the past cannot be changed.