While the setting itself serves as a character for this novel, it is the relationships between Jake, Kali and Aden that show the reader redemption isn't something waiting for us in the afterlife - it's certain small moments we share with those we move with through this life. In Pilgrim's Bay, it is something lost repeatedly, to be found just as often, during Sunday morning drives, holding a loved one's hand, in the tattered booths of smoky bars, in something as simple as sharing a pitcher of beer or fishing with your childhood friend. writer, Courtney McCrimmon"