Between Tides by Angel Khoury
Nine months after Catherine Leary s father, a literature professor, passed away, she still has not fulfilled his final wish: that she scatter his ashes in the Seaboro River in South Carolina. The scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move, Seaboro is the last place Catherine wants to see again. But on the evening of her thirtieth birthday, her father s young colleague - whom she once dated pays a visit. . . . Forrest Anderson offers a challenge from Catherine s father: three probing questions that he had planned to put inside a birthday letter to his daughter. But it s the news that Forrest plans to memorialize her father in an article that includes the family s time in Seaboro and the surprising revelation that her father visited there in recent years that sends Catherine reeling. Hoping to stop Forrest from exposing her family s secrets, she agrees to accompany him to her once beloved Lowcountry town - and embarks on a poignant trip into the past . . . a journey that might lead her into a new life of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery. . . .
"A literary page-turner about “the man with two families,” the wives he betrayed, and the child he left behindThe tale is told by aging recluse Blythe Lodge, the eccentric first wife still living in her ramshackle old house on Cape Cod. Novelist Angel Khoury has invented an incandescent language and a fluid point of view all her own to write this century-spanning story of passion and betrayal, memory and consciousness, love and longing, all set in an isolated, beautifully-limned natural universe of sun and sand and tides, birds and fish and seagrass. I have never read anything quite like it, though I am reminded of Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping,” of Virginia Woolf, of the film “Grey Gardens,” and especially of Lily King’s novel “Euphoria” in which intellectual and physical passion intertwine. Brilliant, ambitious, and enthralling, “Between Tides” is a totally original work of art."—Lee Smith
Angel Khoury has lived on the North Carolina’s Outer Banks for more than forty years. A summer as dishwasher at the Avalon Fishing Pier, waves washing below her feet while reading MacNeill’s The Hatterasman propped above the sink, convinced her to stay. She became associate editor of The Coastland Times, editor and publisher of Outer Banks Magazine, author of Manteo: A Roanoke Island Town, and a board member of the non-profit Outer Banks Conservationists, owners of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse and Island Farm. A native of Suffolk, Virginia, she graduated from The University of Virginia, and also attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. These experiences all led, inevitably, to her first novel, Between Tides. She lives on Roanoke Island, surrounded by history, among friends both living and dead.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781950539321 |
| ISBN 10 | 1950539326 |
| Title | Between Tides |
| Author | Angel Khoury |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Dzanc Books |
| Year published | 2021-09-23 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Novel-in-Progress William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition 2020 (United States) |
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