Sometimes finding your way home takes more than courage.
Marisa\'s journey to help the whales find their way home brings her to a new understanding of the assaults humans have had on nature, and the complicated meaning of family and home..
After her mother unexpectedly leaves home, twelve-year old Marisa struggles with her feelings of loss and abandonment just as a pod of nineteen orca whales--mothers with their new calves following a run of chum salmon--become trapped in the enclosed inlet near her Northwest home.
Chasing at the Surface tells the story of a young girl\'s courage and the healing power of nature.
It takes a leap of faith.
Sometimes finding your way home takes more than courage