Adult Coming of Age / Romance
Date Published: February 23, 2023
A #1 Amazon Bestseller, Peter Cloutier's "What We Were Making" is a must-read for those who love ocean adventures, political thrillers, romance, or coming-of-age stories!
When the lives of two expatriates intersect at the edge of civilization, opportunity, duty and deception collide. Jane is a budding ambassador of heightened motivation, insight, and curiosity. Relentless in her pursuit of justice, ethics, and the common good, her life lacks love. Enter Bill, an adrenaline-fueled waterman who lives breath to breath, wave to wave, and fish to fish. A schoolteacher by day, he embodies the island life but without partnership. When catastrophe unfolds, the two must respond to those in need while attempting to dismantle the deeper collusion around them. In the end, the only winners are those who have the resilience to stand.
What others have to say about Peter Cloutier's "What We Were Making":
"A masterful blend of two contrasting worlds, political and natural, Peter Cloutier's What We Were Making is a sensational and evocative journey into the lives of two lovers suffering the greatest challenge of all: meaning. With a new layer of domesticity, romanticism, policy, and reality in each chapter, it is as multidimensional as it is tragic, and a must-read in any event." - JJ Hebert, USA Today, WSJ and #1 Amazon best-selling author
"A tremendous homage to the worlds of land and sea, of beautiful conflicts of interest, and I hope that all readers may find the same grace, eloquence, and courage that I found in..." - Mariel Hemingway, Oscar-nominated actress and author, granddaughter of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway
What is the underlying message of your book?
Ethics, values
and understanding will always hold higher moral ground against capital, power
and knowledge, if wisdom can continue to prevail. Where do we find such wisdom in today’s
world?
What genre would you describe your book as?
Major: adult
coming-of-age romance, minor: ocean adventure
What’s ONE exciting thing about your book you want the whole world to know?
Ocean interactions, when they are on, are supreme
How has your background influenced you to write this book?
This fictional novel is highly autobiographical of the professional life I have lived abroad for the past twenty years as a development worker, teacher and adrenaline-filled waterman.
What are a few adjectives you’d use to describe your book to a stranger?
Deep, audacious, captivating
What about your book makes you the most excited?
It’s multidimensional. Hence the title.
About the Author
Peter is a waterman with over twenty years working in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. He has enjoyed working with countries and communities in the development of greater marine conservation and access to justice, more resilient water, sanitation and hygiene systems, and better maternal-child health and control against infectious diseases. He is married and a proud father of two children. He is disabled after suffered a traumatic brain injury while working in Afghanistan and has pledged to donate a significant portion of the revenue from his writing to charitable groups located in the countries where he has worked. Learn more about Peter and his family on social media and www.seatheworld.org.
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