Between The Tides
by Patti Callahan Henry
Published by NAL
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Reviewed by Andrea Sisco
Between the Tides is my first novel by Patti Callahan Henry—and it won’t be the last. I intend to devour them all. Her novels are ‘real life’ stories with fully developed characters with problems experienced by many of us at one time or another. Her prose is lyrical and so vivid you actually visualize her settings and can smell the air and sea of the low country of South Carolina. I found myself rereading passages because they were so beautiful or because I found them profound in their simplicity.
Catherine Leary’s father died and his last request was that his ashes be scattered in the Seaboro River in South Carolina. The last place Catherine wants to visit is her hometown and the Seaboro River. At age twelve her life changed following an accident she has always felt responsible for—and she doesn’t want to revisit the intense pain.
Forrest Anderson, Catherine’s former boyfriend and friend of her professor father, is writing a tribute to Catherine’s father. To get a better feel of him and his life, Forrest intends to travel to Seaboro. Catherine doesn’t want Forrest to expose her personal tragedy and accompanies him to her hometown in order to control his information.
The journey becomes more than Catherine anticipated as she learns things about her family, their friends and herself that she never knew. And along the way she reconnects with the life she loved and left and learns to love and forgive herself and others.
Armchair Interviews says: Highly recommended!
Author’s Web site: http://www.PattiCallahanHenry.com