If you ride the ferry over from Seattle, you can watch the city become smaller and smaller; feel the pull of urban complication yielding, the noise lessening, and before you know it, it becomes clear that Washington is much more about its small towns and villages than its only big city. As soon as you disembark, gone is the big city feel. In this collection of writings, Sanelli introduces readers to Bainbridge Island; to its places, people, and intimacies between "this island of us," capturing how islands are their own versions of time, routines, genuine wisdoms, petty grievances, and selfless generosities; surrounded by water ― in this case, a sound, a bay, a passage, and a pass.

"Sanelli's writing is a fine mixture of literary nonfiction and memoir that often, and honestly, examines the act of writing itself." ― The Stranger, Seattle

In this new collection of chronologically compiled essays, Sanelli gives voice to the exquisite nuances of day-to-day life, as well as larger struggles we face, while always managing to leave us feeling less worried, certainly less alone, and much more hopeful.