It is 2014.
Confluence is a Silver Award winner for spiritual fiction in the small press category from the Nautilus Book Awards for 2023..
Despite her doubts about her ability to travel at age sixty-five and being hindered by cerebral palsy, Maya decides to go on what becomes a transformative journey.
With help from her friend, Jack, she receives an invitation from a father of whom she has no memory.
The letter reveals that her father may be alive and living in a remote Himalayan community; her mother admonishes Maya to find him.
Inside, a letter from her late mother begins, Hello, from the other side of the urn.
In Confluence , reclusive Maya Margarita Moore opens a forgotten suitcase in the attic of her La Conner, Washington house.
Confluence is a Silver Award winner for spiritual fiction in the small press category from the Nautilus Book Awards for 2023.
Beyond the beyond.
Despite her doubts about her ability to travel at age sixty-five and being hindered by cerebral palsy, Maya decides to go on what becomes a transformative journey.
With help from her friend, Jack, she receives an invitation from a father of whom she has no memory.
The letter reveals that her father may be alive and living in a remote Himalayan community; her mother admonishes Maya to find him.
Inside, a letter from her late mother begins, Hello, from the other side of the urn.
In Confluence , reclusive Maya Margarita Moore opens a forgotten suitcase in the attic of her La Conner, Washington house.
Then the bit: Jack will help.
The map shows a village called Sangam, where the Sutlej and Saraswati Rivers converge in Tibet.
Find your father; he\'s here.
She wouldn\'t have found her mother\'s letter: Hello from the other side of the urn, it says and ends with an arrow pointing to a hand-drawn map.
If she hadn\'t opened her mother\'s old suitcase, she might have been content to dress in gray sweatpants and write four-line poems in her La Conner, Washington house.
Maya Margarita Moore is over sixty and fancies herself as a new-age Emily Dickinson.
It is 2014
