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One World/Ballantine July 2009 On Sale: July 7, 2009 Featuring: Trish Taylor 336 pages ISBN: 0345499077 EAN: 9780345499073 Paperback Buy at

"An examination of race in love, faith, and family via two sisters, one white and one Black"

Reviewed by Patricia Woodside
Posted July 30, 2009

Multicultural, Fiction

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.

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SUMMARY

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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Children Of The Waters by Carleen Brice

Reviewed by Patricia Woodside
Posted July 30, 2009

One World/Ballantine
July 2009
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Featuring: Trish Taylor
336 pages
ISBN: 0345499077
EAN: 9780345499073
Paperback

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