Sia Dane is a novelist. One day out of the blue her husband Jackson goes out to get them coffee and never returns. Sia give up writing and decides to go stay at the beach with her dog Gumper. While trying to get a grip on her life, she sees a man on the beach. Very unkempt, more like a homeless person. He has no name so she decides on the name Toad for him.
Sia for some unknown reason feels that she needs to help this man. Maybe he is lost and has a family waiting for him. In her hunt to find out who this man is, Sia comes across the dogcatcher who seems to have a little of everything in her home.
THE ART OF FLOATING is a good book written by Kristine Bair O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe touches on the sadness one feels when losing a loved one. Her description of the town and people make you want to live there, or at least visit on vacation. THE ART OF FLOATING touches on both loneliness and helplessness and how one can try and overcome all of this.
THE ART OF FLOATING can get a little bit boring in some spots, but than it picks right up. It has it highs and lows, but makes one think that maybe all we need is to look ahead and the answer to everything might be right in front of you.
At a time when nothing seems real, it takes something truly unusual to put your life into focus.
When her beloved husband Jackson disappeared without a trace, popular novelist Sia Dane stopped writing, closed down her house, stuffed her heart into a cage, and started floating. It wasn’t the normal response to heartache, but Sia rarely did things the normal way.
Exactly one year, one month, and six days after Jackson’s disappearance, Sia discovers a mysterious man on the beach. He’s mute, unresponsive, and looks as if he has just walked out of the sea. It’s the sort of situation Jackson would have solved with a simple call to the police. But Jackson is gone.
As unreal as he seems, Sia is determined to help this man. Perhaps she can return him to his place in the world—to whoever lost him and loves him. Perhaps she can answer their questions the way no one could answer hers.
But as her friends and family help her winnow her way to the truth, Sia comes to realize that the unfathomable leap between sorrow and healing begins with a single step.
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