While the first 20 or so pages of Loraine Adams' "Harbor" had me on the edge of my easy chair, the story seemed to ramble after that and I found it harder and harder to pick up the book. At the start we are enthralled by the story of Aziz, an Algerian illegal immigrant, as he leaps off the boat he stowed away on and swims to the Boston harbor. The tale of his first few days is compelling...after that it seems a miasma of a story of living with characters that we can't really care about. For me, the promise of the beginning was not fulfilled.