This timeless tale of an orphaned boy rescued and raised by sea otters successfully joins diverse elements into an absorbing and imaginative unity. Permeated with mystical undercurrents, it is an astonishing first novel by a gifted storyteller. "In a distinctly feminine voice, this narrative reveals the relationship between several interpenetrating seas: the sea of waters, the sea of maternal warmth, the sea of the imagination, and all yielding ultimately to the sea of the spirit. So deep is the reader's immersion, that one emerges not so much as having read a book-as having been baptized." James N, Powell author of The Tao of Symbols and Energy and Eros "One of the loveliest stories of recent times." Melanie brown, Ph.D. author of Attaining Personal Greatness