Through the Narrows is a memoir by Dede Reed told in two parts. The first describes her childhood in Ohio and summers spent on a lake in the Adirondack mountains, while the second spans her adolescence through early adulthood, starting with a move to Switzerland at age 15 which was followed by boarding school in New England, art school in San Francisco, and pivotal years in Colorado and then Austria. Recording her memories for her grandchildren to...