Ocean of Grace: Short Stories, Poems, and Reflections

Between the Coromandel Coast and Southern California. Between the oldest shores in the world and the newest. Between loss and return.

Ocean of Grace is a literary collection - short stories, poems, and reflections - that moves through the full arc of the Catholic liturgical year, from Advent and Christmas through Lent, Eastertide, and Ordinary Time. Grace, in these pages, is not abstract theology but something encountered in memory, in daily life, in the pull between two distant shores.

Anita Coleman writes as a librarian and information sciences professor by training and a literary writer by calling, drawing on a library life and a literary life formed in dioceses and parishes on two continents.

These pieces move between narrative, image, and personal essay - treating faith, longing, and homecoming as subjects for literature, not instructions for devotion. Readers will find grace approached three ways: through story, through poem, through reflection.

A book for the long way home.