Tides (Freeman Sara)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze

"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 her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming in the night ocean. In her state of emotional extremis, the sea at the town's edge is rendered bleak, luminous, implacable.As her money runs out and tourist season comes to a close, Mara finds a job
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