About the Author

Nora Raleigh Baskin is the acclaimed author of several novels for young readers, including All We Know of Love. About Surfacing, she says, “The traumas I have experienced in my life seem to continually surface and demand to be told, and retold, in different forms. Each time, I find myself having to face something I hadn’t understood before.” Nora Raleigh Baskin lives in New York State.

Reviews

Deeply moving.
—Kirkus Reviews

Baskin writes an unsettling novel that shows the impact of guilt and childhood trauma.
—Publishers Weekly

Baskin limns her protagonist with quick, clear strokes...an affecting portrait of the extent of the aftershocks from a family tragedy.
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books