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About Shoal Water
Product Description Disillusioned by the Vietnam war and troubled by their own past, Kate and Andy leave New York City for a remote Nova Scotia fishing village in search of a simpler life. Living in Andy’s boyhood summer home, they discover the old house is haunted by its original owner, Basil Tannard, who decades earlier was saved by a seal from an accident at sea. Because no one in the village believed Basil and thought he’d gone mad, Basil drowned himself. Yet he remains a ghost in the house, a soothsayer prompting Kate to believe in the unimaginable. As Kate and Andy settle into the barren, Atlantic community and start a bookstore and begin to raise a family, they discover the problems of their own past are mirrored in the unrest of the locals who are grappling with change as modern technology threatens their traditional fishing livelihood. In their shared sense of place, Kate and Andy’s lives become inextricably linked with the fate of Ivan, Will and Lena, and a love triangle, a tragic accident, and alcoholism capsize their future. Shoal water is a treacherous place to be. Not in deep water, and not on land, it is a place in between, full of unexpected hazards, of submerged sandbars, diffracted waves, and counter currents. The story follows Kate’s passage out of dependence into self-possession. It is a compelling story of navigating dangerous waters and gaining the power to redeem loss and find forgiveness and belief in the unimaginable. Review A haunting, lyrical, and startling debut novel set in a close-knit Nova Scotian fishing village. In these treacherous currents, selkies and a drowned villager’s ghost greet a young American woman, Kate, as she escapes New York City life, disillusioned by the Vietnam War and her troubled past. Through an unexpected love triangle, a family disaster-at-sea, Kate searches for home. Shoal Water is a revelation of the changeling characters of sea and self—a poignant reminder that survival is not ever as predictable as the tides." — Brenda Peterson, author of the New York Times “Notable Book of the Year, Duck and Cover"The land and sea come alive in this lovely gem of a book, and the fog in a Nova Scotia village is a vibrant thing, shrouding magic and mystery and the painful secrets of the people within." —Sam Howe Verhovek, author of Jet Age, and feature writer for The National Geographic"Souls keep watch over the people of Slate Harbour. Kate has lost her mother and she is adrift. In her loneliness, she lets herself be chosen by a man whose sorrow threatens to destroy him. Grief haunts them as they succumb to the desires that will tear them apart. In a place defined by isolation, Kip Greenthal has given form to love and beauty held captive in a world of water and stone. This beautiful story held me from beginning to end." —Nancy Rawles, best-selling author of Love like Gumbo, Crawfish Dreams, and My Jim"A beautiful love story set on the margins--on calm waters above dangerous reefs, in the mists between sea and sky, in the confounding spaces between men and women, youth and age, urban and rural, myth and memory. Greenthal’s prose is as ageless as the landscapes she describes, capturing perfectly the rhythms and voices of Nova Scotia, rendering her characters with precision, and building a story that rises as gently and breaks as savagely as a rogue wave." —Karen Fisher, author of national best seller, A Sudden Country"Kip Greenthal weaves a magical net of connections in this absorbing and poetic novel set in an inshore fishing village in Nova Scotia. She deftly conjures the power that a landscape–or, in this case, a seascape–has on two young families as they confront multigenerational trauma and navigate betrayal and loss. Gorgeously tender, this is a story I will carry with me." —Elizabeth Austen, former Washington State Poet Laureate About the Author Kip Robinson Greenthal worked in school and public libraries and founded Seattle Arts & Lectures’ award win
