A French Canadian family and an American family spend three weeks at the same small beach-front cottage community, expecting it to be just another frenzied, expensive, and strained family vacation. Instead, their lives converge in ways none of them could have imagined; all must reevaluate their identities, their desires, the meaning of parenthood, childhood, family, friendship, love, and the cost of becoming and remaining truly alive. Indeed, it is a vacation that they-and we-will never forget.

In this first collection of Ms. Archer's poems, the poet reaches deep within the human soul and plucks heart strings perhaps long neglected. She touches on themes such as love, death, loss, longing, parenting, separation, and the eternal struggle of the creative spirit. Balancing the terse modern minimalist and more traditional poetic forms she offers her readers an array of poignant gems not easily forgotten.