Crossing to Safety

Larry and Sally Morgan are an ordinary, hopeful family making their way through hardships. Sid and Charity Lang are a charismatic couple living with a sense of ease and happiness. Their acquaintance begins during the Great Depression and develops into a lifelong friendship full of generosity, support, tenderness and inner challenges. Together they experience illness, loss, summers together in Vermont and a year in Florence, when all four of them feel like they are in Eden. But life is a seesaw of celebration and mundanity with responsibilities, painful compromises and tension that sometimes so skillfully hides behind care.

“To Safe Shores” is a leisurely novel about the beauty of ordinary life and those elusive moments when the most important stories are born in the silence between words. This is a story about friendship that becomes a home, the idealism of youth and maturity that teaches acceptance. And about love that does not disappear, even when everything around changes.