Outside Is the Ocean

Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II crosses the Atlantic to start a new life. Outside Is the Ocean traces Heike's struggle to find love and happiness in America. After two marriages and a troubled relationship with her son, Heike adopts a disabled child from Russia, a strong-willed girl named Galina, who Heike hopes will give her the affection and companionship she craves. As Galina grows up, Heike's grasp on reality frays, and she writes a series of letters to the son she thinks has abandoned her forever. It isn't until Heike's death that her son finds these letters and realizes how skewed his mother's perceptions actually were.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 10/15/2017
ISBN: 9781609385279
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 08/21/2017
Booklist 10/01/2017 pg. 26