Water Log is a love story and a travel narrative always in perfect tension between departure and arrival. It is a novel that begins anew with every story, and with the same sense of agility and dare of his character, it always comes back home to a place that is different and the same. Clemente’s character is the Robert Louis Stevenson who travels by donkey to show how the best part of a trip is how well it is told and in the process he reconstructs the familiar as new. A micronarrative in the tradition of Lydia Davis, this original and engaging novel makes each of these stories a bridge that connects land and sea, body and mind, and between each of them Clemente creates spaces for us to become the best readers we can be.