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Everywhere there is water. Nearly all these stories explore basic human characteristics - poverty, puberty, loss, hope, aging, dementia, racism, gender identity, mischievousness, love - with the ocean or a river or a pond or a beach as background. In these stories a sailor sprinkles her husband's ashes in the Bahamas, two misfit teenagers take each other's measure on a peninsula's granite outcropping, and a man encounters a mama bear and her cubs on a remote Aleutian island. Sometimes the water is merely benign setting; more often it reminds the reader of the obstacles that all of us...

Bitter Passage opens on a rainy day in New York City during the bleak winter of 1849. Newspapers and broadsides shout the news that gold has been discovered in California. Americans respond predictably. Among the mob heading off in that epic American drama - the Gold Rush - are Frida, Hermann, and their three children. Frida's life has been a series of sad leave-takings, beginning ten years earlier in Prussia. When Hermann announces that he will leave New York to go to the fabled diggings, she determines to hold the family together by going too, taking their two teen-age sons and toddler...