Tidewatchers

Tidewatchers is an original work of fiction that explores those bonds of blood capable of enduring death. Set on an island in the tidewater region of Virginia, the novel follows the Loops, a family isolated first by their reputation and then by the death of Wavy Loop, the novel's twelve-year old narrator. What begins as a chronicle of Wavy's coming of age in a place on the verge of change becomes an examination of grief as the Loops mourn the life Wavy will never live and Wavy observes the lives she fears she has ruined with her death. Incorporating elements of the fantastic, Tidewatchers tells a story about adolescence, sisterhood, and loss; in doing so, it seeks to reveal the miraculous in what too often appears mundane: family.