Meet award-winning fiction writer Ellyn Bache, author of eight novels (including "Safe Passage," which became a 
Susan Sarandon film), a short story collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, several books for young people, and a nonfiction journal about sponsoring refugees.
Quick. The mountains or the sea?
Bet you have an answer, even without thinking.
So do the characters in Daughters of the Sea, a Reviewers Choice Book of the Year Nominee, about three generations of women drawn in very different, sometimes eerie, ways to water. Veronica, age 38, has lived by the ocean all her adult life and longs for it when she moves inland. Seventy-year-old Ernie is a mountain woman who works as a dowser finding underground streams for well-drillers. Simpson, 19, prides herself on being logical but is drawn to a serene mountain lake that turns out to be far from serene. She also believes dowsing is mumbo-jumbo until she finds she has a weird talent for it . . . with startling consequences.
Daughters of the Sea was a Top Pick from RT BookReviews, which called it a "charming, delightful book, filled with surprises and a combination of emotion, humor, and mystery." I think you'll like it, too. I hope you'll read it by the ocean, or where you can rest your eyes on a vista of mountains.
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