num_pages: 176
description: Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the story of Emily, a woman free as the waves she swims in every day, of the man who wants to clip her wings, of her son and the summer that he will become a man.
language: English
title: Up Through the Water
titlecomplete: Up Through the Water
genres: Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 105
publisher: Grove Press