Waterborne
Waterborne is the story of an artist, an engineer, and a Labrador—three entirely different personalities—who abandon a stable middle-aged lifestyle for a pitching deck and the possibility of pirates. Challenged by culture clashes, gear failure, and sudden storms, their story is as much a sea saga as travel memoir, celebrating the interior as well as exterior journey and the joys of an inquisitive engagement with the world—a timely subject in today’s climate of increasing tribalism.
Borrowed Child
After the drug overdose of her teenage son, Helen, a privileged, white woman, takes in Mia, a troubled and undocumented Mexican teenager. Although they initially fill each other’s voids, Helen’s lofty expectations of Mia eventually test that bond, and Mia, tortured by guilt and starved for affection, runs off with Diego, an MS-13 gang leader. While Helen, bereft over losing another child, tries to reconstruct her life, Mia’s life with Diego spirals into a nightmare: just after she has his baby, he goes to jail for multiple murders.
As each woman moves forward through her own challenges, Helen confronts her deep-seated prejudices, and Mia battles her own demons in search of self-identity and meaning in her life. A haunting and suspenseful cautionary tale, Borrowed Child is about what happens when a well-meaning inclination toward “salvation” goes awry.