"The jazz scenes crackle with energy and authority. . . . Coulson moves fluidly between the past and the present, and the novel is ultimately quiet, affecting and redemptive."--Publishers Weekly

"Abounds in passion and wonder."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

Forced to abandon a musical career and struggling to move his father's sailboat out of dry dock, Coleman Moore finds himself at midlife in the company of ghosts: his grandfather, a rumrunner and Great Lakes pirate; his jazz mentor, a black man in a white town; and his first love, a woman unafraid of the past. Like a melody or a swift stream, Of Song and Water pulls us into a world of hidden truths, crushed dreams, and possible redemption.

Joseph Coulson's The Vanishing Moon was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and received great critical acclaim in the United States as well as in Germany and France. Born in Detroit, Coulson is the author of three books of poetry and several plays. Of Song and Water is his second novel. He lives in Boston.