Following the breakup of her marriage, it's just
veterinarian's assistant Trish and her teen son, Will. All
of the family she's known is gone. She lost her mother and
baby sister years ago in a car accident, never knew her
father, and the grandparents who raised her are dead. Trish
desires a family and moves to back to her hometown of Denver
to start over after her divorce.
Trish's search for family leads her to Billie. Headstart
teacher Billie also desires a family of her own and tries to
make one with Nick, her musician boyfriend. But Nick isn't
sure he can be what Billie needs him to be, especially once
Billie discovers she is pregnant.
Yet the biggest discovery for either of them is that white
Trish and African-American Billie...are sisters.
With CHILDREN OF THE WATERS, Carleen Brice examines "love,
loss, race, and reunion" in this story about families. By
way of an unassuming yet arrow-sharp prose, Ms. Brice
invites her readers to consider what role does or should
race play in identity and in whom one chooses to love, and
what constitutes family. She also forces a look at the many
faces of religion and spirituality.
Trish, the dog-loving, sugar addict, searches for the sister
she'd thought dead, only to find an health-food eating,
African-dancing, spiritual woman who doesn't seem to like
her very much. Yet Trish and Billie discover, despite their
differences in race and upbringing—Trish in a poor family
and Billie in an upper middle class one—they have much in
common. Both sisters desire family and are doing their best
to craft one from their messy lives.
Although it took a few chapters for the story to sink its
hooks in me, once gripped, I was more than willing to hang
on for the ride. At times, I found myself relating to
Trish, and at other times to Billie, proving what I believe
is the central point of CHILDREN OF THE WATERS. We're all
alike beneath the skin.
Trish Taylor’s white ancestry never got in the way of her
love for her black ex-husband, or their mixed race son,
Will. But when Trish’s marriage ends, she returns to her
family’s Denver, Colorado home to find a sense of identity
and connect to her past.
What she finds there shocks
her to the very core: her mother and newborn sister were not
killed in a car crash as she was told. In fact, her baby
sister, Billie Cousins, is now a grown woman; her
grandparents had put her up for adoption, unwilling to raise
the child of a black man. Billie, who had no idea she was
adopted, wants nothing to do with Trish until a tragedy in
Billie’s own family forces her to lean on her surprisingly
supportive and sympathetic sister. Together they unravel
age-old layers of secrets and resentments and navigate a
path toward love, healing, and true reconciliation.
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