Despite the bad relationship with her own mother, Anna has been able to form a loving and close connection to her own daughter.
She wonders if she adopted Adrea as a way to replace Megan, despite the love she feels for her new daughter.Īs the story progresses, so too does Anna and Adrea’s relationship which is really touching and special to see. This relationship has troubled Anna for years. Since the drowning, her mother has pulled herself away from Anna and fallen into a deep depression. Her family has become dysfunctional, and she and her mother have become mostly estranged. The two form a bond as mother and daughter, but Anna has been unable to recover completely from the tragedy which has been haunting her for nearly her entire life. She feels a connection to this child, and decides to adopt her. Through her work, she encounters five year old Adrea, a deaf child who was abandoned by her teenage parents at 18 months. When Megan died, she thought she could communicate to her with sign, so she became fluent in the language, and made it her life’s work. We discover that sign language has been important to her since childhood. She now works at a hearing center with deaf children.
The story picks up with Anna as an adult. A frantic search pursues while Anna looks on in a state of unknowing and shock. When a large wave comes, the raft is covered, and when the wave is gone, Megan is gone with it. The two girls are having fun on a small raft. Anna sits on the sand with her mother, while her father is out on the water with Carla, Bonnie and Megan.
Along with them is a family friend Carla, and her young daughter, Bonnie. The story begins with Anna as an eight year old on the beach with her family, which includes her mother, father, and five year old sister Megan. It is hard to explain, but sometimes a book is deeply moving and you aren’t able to shake it from your thoughts. I just finished this novel and my initial reaction is that this story will stay with me for a long time.
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