So any wonderful tales come out of the sea. I haven't heard this one before--only bits and pieces with different beginnings and endings. One of my favorites isn't well known. Robert Nathan wrote a short novel called "So Love Returns".
On the Malibu coast in California a widower and his two children are staying at a old beach house and his little girl is caught in a riptide and as he runs to go after his daughter a woman comes out of the waves and brings her ashore unconscious and the daughter wakes. The woman stays with him and his family heals around her being part of it. But she is a 'sea witch' and has to return to the sea. Like right now in Los Angeles, the Santa Ana winds blow, and a terrible fire starts and they flee and she tells him she has to go and he doesn't see her again. He begins to understand what has happened and his children often report back to him that they see her in the waves sometimes.
I am in the midst of these fires right now and I am so happy to remember this story and I'm going to take it down off the shelf, reread it and remember that we don't know everything we think we do.
Oh I don’t know that novel either - I will definitely get hold of a copy! It sounds wonderful. I’m sorry you are caught in these terrible fires. Hope you are alright and can find solace somehow x
So any wonderful tales come out of the sea. I haven't heard this one before--only bits and pieces with different beginnings and endings. One of my favorites isn't well known. Robert Nathan wrote a short novel called "So Love Returns".
On the Malibu coast in California a widower and his two children are staying at a old beach house and his little girl is caught in a riptide and as he runs to go after his daughter a woman comes out of the waves and brings her ashore unconscious and the daughter wakes. The woman stays with him and his family heals around her being part of it. But she is a 'sea witch' and has to return to the sea. Like right now in Los Angeles, the Santa Ana winds blow, and a terrible fire starts and they flee and she tells him she has to go and he doesn't see her again. He begins to understand what has happened and his children often report back to him that they see her in the waves sometimes.
I am in the midst of these fires right now and I am so happy to remember this story and I'm going to take it down off the shelf, reread it and remember that we don't know everything we think we do.
Oh I don’t know that novel either - I will definitely get hold of a copy! It sounds wonderful. I’m sorry you are caught in these terrible fires. Hope you are alright and can find solace somehow x