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A review by jenni8fer
The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
4.0
Love this book! Wonderful writing, very timely on the ways of the current world in which we live, well-drawn characters, and overall great story! Highly recommend!
The story is narrated by the stay-at-home dad, Adam, who cares for his girls, cooks, cleans and is a part-time professor at the local university, while he works on his own project on Coventry Cathedral. He juxtaposes his daughter, Miriam's, story with that of the history of Coventry Cathedral. In addition, Adam's father, Eli, recalls his parents' story of how they fled war-torn Europe for America. But for Adam its the tidal zone part of this story that holds the pull in his memory of where he lost his mother as a young boy to something very similar to what happened to his daughter, Miriam. Adam and his bread-winning wife must come to terms with how to learn to return to normalcy once again. It's only through a process of letting go and rediscovering life by taking chances that this can happen.
The story is narrated by the stay-at-home dad, Adam, who cares for his girls, cooks, cleans and is a part-time professor at the local university, while he works on his own project on Coventry Cathedral. He juxtaposes his daughter, Miriam's, story with that of the history of Coventry Cathedral. In addition, Adam's father, Eli, recalls his parents' story of how they fled war-torn Europe for America. But for Adam its the tidal zone part of this story that holds the pull in his memory of where he lost his mother as a young boy to something very similar to what happened to his daughter, Miriam. Adam and his bread-winning wife must come to terms with how to learn to return to normalcy once again. It's only through a process of letting go and rediscovering life by taking chances that this can happen.