New York: SOHO Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (although she has published both poetry and short fiction), a story of post-apocalyptic survival. "Kitty Manning is fifty feet underwater off a South Pacific island when nuclear bombs devastate the world. When she emerges from the sea, it is as if for the first time. Everything has changed. No one else can define her life anymore. . . Or save it." 264 pp. ISBN: 0-939149591.