Question: What is the body of water by the city where the author of What We Believe But Cannot Prove was born?

in 1964, 8 - year - old allen bauer (david kreps) is vacationing with his family near cape cod. while taking a sight - seeing tour on a small boat, he sees something below the ocean surface that fascinates him. allen jumps into the water, even though he can not swim. he grasps the hands of a girl (shayla mackarvich) who is inexplicably under the water with him and an instant connection forms between the two. allen can now breathe under water as he is in the hands of a mermaid. however, allen is pulled to the surface by the deck hands and the two are separated, though apparently no one else sees the girl. allen comes to believe the encounter was a near - death hallucination, but his bond with the mermaid proves so strong that his subsequent relationships with women fail as he subconsciously seeks the connection he felt with the mermaid. <SEP> all the light we cannot see is a novel written by american author anthony doerr, published by scribner on may 6, 2014. it won the 2015 pulitzer prize for fiction and the 2015 andrew carnegie medal for excellence in fiction. <SEP> He founded the Edge Foundation, an organization aimed to bring together people working at the edge of a broad range of scientific and technical fields. John Brockman (born February 16, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a literary agent and author specializing in scientific literature. <SEP> The Mystic River separates Charlestown from Chelsea and Everett, and Chelsea Creek and Boston Harbor separate East Boston from Downtown, the North End, and the Seaport. Boston is surrounded by the "Greater Boston" region and is contiguously bordered by the cities and towns of Winthrop, Revere, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brookline, Needham, Dedham, Canton, Milton, and Quincy. The Charles River separates Boston from Watertown and the majority of Cambridge, and the mass of Boston from its own Charlestown neighborhood. To the east lie Boston Harbor and the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (which includes part of the city's territory, specifically Calf Island, Gallops Island, Great Brewster Island, Green Island, Little Brewster Island, Little Calf Island, Long Island, Lovells Island, Middle Brewster Island, Nixes Mate, Outer Brewster Island, Rainsford Island, Shag Rocks, Spectacle Island, The Graves, and Thompson Island). The Neponset River forms the boundary between Boston's southern neighborhoods and the city of Quincy and the town of Milton. <SEP> The book consists of various responses to a question posed by the Edge Foundation, with answers as short as one sentence or as long as a few pages. Among the 107 published contributors are such notable scientists and philosophers as Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, Rebecca Goldstein, Steven Pinker, Sir Martin Rees and Craig Venter. Some contributions weren't published, including those by Benoit Mandelbrot and computer scientist John McCarthy. However theirs are among 120 responses available online. What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty is a non-fiction book edited by literary agent John Brockman with an introduction by novelist Ian McEwan and published by Harper Perennial.