Draining the Sea - Hardcover

"With the gorgeous prose that has characterized her previous works, Micheline Aharonian Marcom gives us a new work of obsession, tragedy, and the unpredictable trajectories of the heart. Crosscutting between the stories of a half-Armenian man in Los Angeles and a brutalized young woman in Guatemala, Marcom beautifully mines the undercurrents that suffuse their lives." -Cristina Garcaa, author of "Dreaming in Cuban" and "A Handbook to Luck"

aFew writers have the courage and the honesty to go the places Marcom goes...[her] most intense work to date.a
aPeter Orner, author of "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" and "Esther Stories"
aThe novelas evocative imagery and explicit prose can move as well as chill.a
a"Publishers Weekly"

?Few writers have the courage and the honesty to go the places Marcom goes...[her] most intense work to date.?
?Peter Orner, author of "The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo" and "Esther Stories"

?The novel's evocative imagery and explicit prose can move as well as chill.?
?"Publishers Weekly"

Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1968 to an American father and an Armenian-Lebanese mother. She grew up in Los Angeles, and now lives in northern California, where she teaches creative writing at Mills College.