Between Tides by Angel Khoury
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 proving that even through absence, love’s presence is everlasting.
Publication Date: July 26, 2022
Hardcover: 308 pages
Paperback: 308 pages
ISBN: 9781950539321
Also available as an eBook
PRAISE FOR BETWEEN TIDES
"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. … Brilliant, ambitious, and enthralling, Between Tides is a totally original work of art."
-Lee Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girls
"Between Tides ebbs and flows between the beaches of Cape Cod and the beaches of Hatteras Island. It flows in time as well, between the late 1800's and the 1940's, so for dual time and historical fiction fans out there, this is THE next big read. ... Khoury has truly captured coastal life in the late 19th century and does it so well it is startling sometimes to look up from the page and discover oneself back in our own modern age. A book to read from start to finish in one sitting, a book sure to please lovers of the written word, a debut that is going to make waves throughout the literary world." -Jamie Anderson, Duck's Cottage Coffee & Books
”Between Tides is a beautifully written historical novel set on Cape Cod and the Outer Banks of North Carolina between the 1890s and the l940s. It begs to be read aloud and the reader will probably find themselves doing just that."
-Elizabeth Merritt, Titcomb's Bookshop
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Angel Khoury has lived on the Outer Banks of North Carolina for more than 40 years. As dishwasher at the Avalon Fishing Pier, she watched waves roll beneath the cracked floorboards while reading her water-stained copy of MacNeill’s The Hatterasman. She left her dishwashing suds to become associate editor of The Coastland Times newspaper, editor and publisher of Outer Banks Magazine, author of Manteo: A Roanoke Island Town, and secretary of the non-profit Outer Banks Conservationists which owns the Currituck Beach Lighthouse and Island Farm. A graduate of The University of Virginia, she 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.
