The Dream Dredger

Pregnant with her first child, Diny Branson is haunted by her mothers death years ago in the Hudson River. Was it suicide or accident? Slowly, Diny weaves the many threads of Lises tragic lifefrom a fairyland youth to a happy marriage, then through the travails of losing a child. Diny learns how the forces of history, like the coming Holocaust, inflict losses, such as loss of language, that create other more subtle lossesand how the forces of nature, like the majestic Hudson, can be both threat and comfort.