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Between Tides

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Between Tides is a captivating historical novel set between the 1890s and 1940s on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks. The story follows a man who deserts his wife and role as keeper of the Chatham Beach Lifesaving Station to begin a new family at Cape Hatteras. Decades later, his daughter, on her way to serve in World War II with the Red Cross, visits Cape Cod and meets her father's first wife, Blythe. This reunion rekindles buried memories of love, loss, and abandonment. With evocative settings and lyrical prose, the novel explores the enduring presence of love despite absence across two wild seascapes.
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Ideal for readers of literary historical fiction who appreciate nuanced family dramas set against evocative coastal landscapes. Fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, and works by Virginia Woolf will find much to admire in this lyrical exploration of love and loss.

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A captivating historical novel set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

1890s, Cape Cod: Between tides, a man deserts his wife and his post as keeper of the Chatham Beach Lifesaving Station to start a new family far to the south, at Cape Hatteras.

1940s: His daughter, en route to serve in World War II with the Red Cross, travels to Cape Cod where she meets his first wife, Blythe, reanimating a life she had long buried: memories of her courtship, her bitter losses, and her husband's slow-motion vanishing.

Set on two wild seascapes, Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, Between Tides is a lyrical novel for readers of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marilynne Robinson—a story of two women stitching together a family ripped at the seams and discovering that even through absence, love's presence is everlasting.

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Praised as "a literary page-turner," Between Tides tells a poignant story of passion, betrayal, and longing through the unique voice of Blythe Lodge, the first wife. Lee Smith highlights the novel's "incandescent language" and "beautifully-limned natural universe," comparing its style to Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Virginia Woolf. The novel’s ambitious, original narrative has been lauded as "brilliant" and "enthralling," weaving intellectual and emotional depth into a century-spanning tale.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950539635

Publisher: Dzanc Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Dzanc Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 250g

About the Author

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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