By Laura M. Flynn
Whilst Laura Flynn used to be a bit lady, her attractive, dynamic mom, Sally, used to be the guts of her mind's eye. It wasn’t lengthy, notwithstanding, sooner than Sally’s fun-loving part slowly and methodically turned absorbed by means of insanity. As Laura’s mom and dad divorced and her father struggled to realize custody, Sally’s signs bloomed in earnest whereas Laura and her sisters united in flights of fancy of the kind their mom taught them in order that they may possibly deflect the chance threatening their fragile family.
Set in Nineteen Seventies San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is redolent with position. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a so much intimate portrait of what could have been a catastrophic formative years had Laura and her sisters no longer been resilient and made up our minds sufficient to outlive their surroundings whilst they yearned to flee it.
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Here, in 1961, a sailor could roam for weeks on end, dropping anchor each night in a perfect harbor, seldom seeing a human face. The sea was wild with color from horizon to horizon, like a stained-glass window. The colors of the water changed constantly. Over deep channels, the water was deep greenish-blue like the open ocean. It was light blue at ten to fifteen fathoms, light green at four to five fathoms, pale green at one to two fathoms, clear and colorless as tap water at less than a fathom, and foamy white where it broke over the coral reefs.
He noticed that Harvey and his wife were drinking, but the Duperraults were not. On Saturday morning, maneuvering the Bluebelle with its six-foot draft through rocks and reefs along the shallow banks, Harvey set course eight miles northwest to Gorda Cay, a tiny island with a small settlement and a beautiful white horseshoe beach in a picturesque harbor. Off the island, the Bluebelle party was observed trolling for game fish, the ketch moving steadily under power. Early Sunday, the Bluebelle was back at her anchorage off Sandy Point and the Harveys reappeared at the commissioner’s pink stucco office in the afternoon to fill out the forms for leaving the Bahamas and returning to the United States.
When dawn broke Thursday in a blaze of pinks, golds, and blues, the Duperraults were already on deck to see their first show of life in a tropical paradise. On the island, pelicans flapped their great wings sleepily and rose on the wind to soar out in flawless formation to find breakfast. They glided gracefully, surprisingly close to the crests of the waves, until they sighted small fish under the sun-sparkled surface. Then the great birds zoomed upward, turned, tucked in their wings, and dived, slicing cleanly into the water with surprising force.