Novelist explores grief and sense of place on the Oregon Coast in ‘Finding Lost’

Novelist explores grief and sense of place on the Oregon Coast in ‘Finding Lost’

In the summer of 2020, Kyle and Amber Novelli died when their crab boat got caught in rough water at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on the Oregon Coast.The news had a big effect on the writer Holly Goldberg Sloan. She spent a lot of time in the nearby town of Florence as a kid.The tragedy got her thinking about the connections we have to beautiful — but deadly — places, even when they take someone we love.“I started imagining what would be like …