The journey of grief is a strange one and one not often talked about in our everyday reality of this society, but I know what it's like to dive deep, down to the bottom of the wreck, feel the ribs of the wreck, after losing a parent so young in life In this collection, the sea refuses no river, there is an acceptance of the pain and an acceptance of the healing moments, the healing journeys. To quote Adrienne Rich: I came to explore the wreck', and in this collection, Bethany discovers how, 'The words are purposes. The words are maps.