The Pinctada Duo is an epic coming-of-age story told in two novels ("En Mer" & "Lost and Found in Paradise") that are intended to be read as one work. In 1956, American teenagers Bill Benton and Brittany "Bambi" Macey sail to French Polynesia on a stolen yawl and endure tumultuous months that erase what remains of their adolescent innocence. Under the benevolent mentorship of Oliana Teriierooiterai, a prominent Marquesan chieftess on the island of...