Surfacing Study Guide

Surfacing begins with the narrator's describing the road on which she is traveling. It is a familiar road that she used to travel often as a child. She describes the different stores and restaurants that she had visited and different memories she has of those places. This time she is with three other people, not her family. David is driving, and beside him sits his wife, Anna. She sits in the back seat holding Joe's, her lover's, hand. (read more)