Between Tides

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*Captivating historical fiction set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, spanning the 1860s to the 1940s, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
*Debut novelist with strong ties to the indie bookstore community in the Outer Banks/Roanoke Island, NC area
*Strong local backing - Jamie Anderson, local bookseller at Downtown Books in Manteo NC and Ducks Cottage bookstore in Duck NC, has already reached out to the author about promoting the novel
*Personal outreach to author's contacts at Downtown Books and Sam & Winston, Manteo, NC; Ducks Cottage, Duck, NC; and Island Bookstore, Kitty Hawk, Duck, and Corolla NC. Other local bookstores include Buxton Village Books, Hatteras Island; Books To Be Red, Ocracoke Island. Many gift shops and restaurants on the Outer Banks also sell books; we'll be doing outreach to unconventional retailers as well.
*Mass galley mailing, targeting indie bookstores and publications in North Carolina and Massachusetts
*Book club push
*Galley outreach to authors of similar books, as well as writers the author has personal connections to, including Geraldine Brooks, William Kennedy, Marilynne Robinson, Valerie Martin, Sena Jeter Naslund, Lee Smith, Bob Shacochis, David Payne, Michael Parker, Mark Richard, Kimberly Elkins
*Egalleys available on Edelweiss
*Former associate editor of The Coastland Times newspaper, editor and publisher of Outer Banks Magazine
; also the author of nonfiction Manteo: A Roanoke Island Town

Reviews

"A literary page-turner about the man with two families, the wives he betrayed, and the child he left behind. The tale is told by aging recluse Blythe Lodge, the eccentric first wife still living in her ramshackle old house on Cape Cod. Novelist 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. I have never read anything quite like it, though I am reminded of Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping, of Virginia Woolf, of the film Grey Gardens, and especially of Lily Kings novel Euphoria in which intellectual and physical passion intertwine. Brilliant, ambitious, and enthralling, Between Tides is a totally original work of art."Lee Smith

Author Bio

Angel Khoury has lived on the North Carolinas Outer Banks for more than forty years. A summer as dishwasher at the Avalon Fishing Pier, waves washing below her feet while reading MacNeills The Hatterasman propped above the sink, convinced her to stay. She became associate editor of The Coastland Times, editor and publisher of Outer Banks Magazine, author of Manteo: A Roanoke Island Town, and a board member of the non-profit Outer Banks Conservationists, owners of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse and Island Farm. A native of Suffolk, Virginia, she graduated from The University of Virginia, and also attended Randolph-Macon Womans 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.