This was a beautiful and engaging novel. The little blurbs describe it as more of a murder mystery type book, which is not how I read it. To me, it was all about the characters and the writing. The author weaves together these lives from various time periods, always coming back to these two women...
Lush and fiercely beautiful, Moon Tide follows the lives of three women in a small fishing town on the Massachusetts coast, from 1913 to the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. With lyrical prose, wisdom, and insight, Dawn Clifton Tripp maps the shifting tensions in a small town on the verge...
she asks.He smiles. “Just closing my eyes. It feels good to have them closed.”She lies still. Through the open window, she can hear the sound of the waves against the shore.It is black in the room, not quite a wash. There are the deeper shadows of a bureau, a bookshelf, a chair; muffled, unfamili...
Stieglitz invites both Strands to the Lake that fall, but Paul is too busy to make the trip. Beck writes back, asking if perhaps she can come alone. “Tell her to come now,” I say. “The house is too full.” “She can stay in the inn down the road. Nicer that way.” I add, “Then I can see if I like he...
She is completely unprepared for the leaves, the thunder of color and the stillness of the road. She does not remember the trees being so tall. She does not remember the number of new summer homes that have hatched along each side of Thanksgiving Lane, their windows boarded up for winter. New dir...