cover image Springs of Living Water

Springs of Living Water

Karen Lawrence. Ballantine Books, $4.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-34827-2

California resident Min travels to her Ontario birthplace and to Ireland, her ancestral home, hoping to find a past that will bring her to terms with the present. ``Occasionally the journey--and the plot--seem rather haphazard,'' said PW. ``But happily, once the narrative settles in Min's (and Lawrence's) native Canada, the writing is at the author's evocative and moving best.'' (Mar.)