Tidal Flats
A marriage story. How much is too much to want?
"I've been waiting a long time for this book." ―Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers and Music for Wartime
2020 IPPY Award Winner for Literary Fiction
2020 NIEA Winner for General Fiction and Best Cover
In this elegant and honest novel, a young couple must navigate that fine line between the things they want for themselves and the the things they want together, and it appears each will have to make a choice―the person they love or the life they want.
Mary Cassatt Miller, the director of an Atlanta home for older women, and famous photojournalist Ethan Graham want a life together. Despite Ethan’s work taking him to the streets of Afghanistan, he agrees that after three years, he will stop traveling.
But, nine weeks before their third anniversary, Cass is unsure whether Ethan will ever give up the work he loves. As the clock counts down, it doesn’t help that Singer, the artist-bartender, is always in Atlanta, and the enthralling Setara, the subject of Ethan’s most famous photograph, is also his business partner.
A new danger in Afghanistan changes everything.
Paperback includes a Reader's Guide, perfect for Book Clubs and all Lovers of Fiction:
- This story of marriage will inspire discussions about feminist books, a person's sense of self, the question of whether or not to have a family, individual passions, romance versus love, romance inspired by lovers, missed anniversaries and marriage conflicts.
- Features relatable characters with a sense of self, family dynamics and a journey through romance, love disappointment, secrets, conflict, passion, and danger.
- A novel that’s perfect for lovers of fiction, romance stories, and feminist books
Lovers of fiction and fans of feminist books like Writers & Lovers by Lily King, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, Life Drawing by Robin Black you’re going to love Cynthia Newberry Martin’s novel Tidal Flats.
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Book details
- Author
- Cynthia Newberry Martin
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 266
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Family Life › Marriage & Divorce
Fiction › Romance › Contemporary
Fiction › Women
Fiction › Literary - Topics
- marriage · romance · long-distance relationship · women's fiction · sense of self · compromise and sacrifice · love and ambition
- ISBN-13
- 9781642509816 (Paperback)9781732676824 (Hardcover)
About the author
CYNTHIA NEWBERRY MARTIN is the author of three novels, including The Art of Her Life, Love Like This and Tidal Flats. She is also the editor of the How We Spend Our Days series, a decade-long collection of essays by writers on their lives.
Martin’s novel Tidal Flats won the Gold Medal in Literary Fiction at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Fiction.
When she’s not writing, Martin publishes the How We Spend Our Days series on her website and on Substack, bringing writers' voices to a broader audience.
Cynthia lives in Columbus, Georgia, with her husband, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in a little house by the water.