"salt water" has a wonderful first sentence: "In the summer of 1963 I fell and drowned my father." The need to hinsagen softly to himself, and each time the sentence better.
It is a book about love. The first love. The love between parents and children. The search for love. The loss of love. The love of animals to boats, to the sea. All that packed so lightly floating in a summer story, compressed into 144 pages. Each set is perfect, perfect fit, not a word too much. A fantastsiches book. One of those you would have written himself happy.
The funny thing about it: Simmons has stolen the constellation of characters in Turgenev's novel "First Love" and admits it quite openly. An example of how an author can use on another without plagiarizing flat.
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