Apr. 9, 2008
CFBA Featured Book ~ April 9-11
ABOUT THE BOOK:
 In the South Carolina Sea Islands lush setting, Nicole Seitz's second novel Trouble the Water is a poignant novel about two middle-aged sisters' journey to self-discovery.
One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she's got it all together until her sister's imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne's Island.
Strong female protagonists are forced to deal with suicide, wife abuse, cancer, and grief in a realistic way that will ring true for anyone who has ever suffered great loss.
"This is another thing I know for a fact: a woman can't be an island, not really. No, it's the touching we do in other people's lives that matters when all is said and done. The silly things we do for ourselves--shiny new cars and jobs and money--they don't mean a hill of beans. Honor taught me that. My soul sisters on this island taught me that. And this is the story of true sisterhood. It's the story of Honor, come and gone, and how one flawed woman worked miracles in this mixed-up world."
"...a special sisterhood of island women whose wisdom and courage linger in the mind long after the book is closed."
-NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author SUSAN WIGGS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
 Nicole Seitz is a South Carolina Lowcountry native and the author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass as well as a freelance writer/illustrator who has published in numerous low country magazines. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism, she also has a bachelor's degree in illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. Nicole shows her paintings in the Charleston, South Carolina area, where she owns a web design firm and lives with her husband and two small children. Nicole is also an avid blogger, you can leave her a comment on her blog.
Seitz's writing style recalls that of Southern authors like Kaye Gibbons, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Sue Monk Kidd, and this new novel, which the publisher compares to Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, surely joins the ranks of strong fiction that highlights the complicated relationships between women. Highly recommended, especially for Southern libraries.
MY THOUGHTS: Hmmmm.....up until about half-way through this book, I was wondering how I was going to review this one. It bounced around alot, time-wise, and was written from the perspective of 3 different characters, not to mention the fact that one of them ran around naked alot of the time. I was just thinking this book was really strange. But, I didn't put it down~ I continued to read. And, by the time I got to the end, I believe my exact words to my family were this: "Despite the strangeness and the naked lady, this really was a good book with a great ending." And that pretty much sums up the way I feel. The book got better and better the more I read of it, and by the end I was really liking it ALOT. When I started reading, I really didn't think I'd be a fan of Nicole Seitz, but now I can say that I'd definitely pick up another of her books. This was a story of sisterhood, love, loss, and healing. If you've ever lost someone close to you because of cancer, you might especially appreciate this story.
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Apr. 9, 2008 - Thank you
 Posted by Nicole Seitz
Thanks for your honesty, Heidi! I'm glad you stuck with it till the end. Many blessings to you,
Nicole
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