Matthew Lansburgh

Latvian Angel

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.

Outside Is the Ocean

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Katherine Heiny

Hala Alyan

Andrea Cohen

Becky Mandelbaum

Muhammed Awal Ahmed

Avital Balwit

Joe Baumann

Amber Emanuel

Alyssa Freeman-Moser

Nina Gaby

Yennie Jun

Shane Kowalski

Edith Knight Magak

Jordan McDonald

Roger Salloch

Sara Schaff

Eileen Townsend

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