Tides

"Brilliant, elegant, and unsparing." —Emma Cline

“[S]tarkly beautiful.” — WBUR

“Enchanting.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

An intoxicating, compact debut novel by the winner of Columbia’s Henfield Prize, Tides is an astoundingly powerful portrait of a deeply unpredictable woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town.

After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in ...