num_pages: 304
description: When high-school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister Lo go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer they dont expect much in the way of adventure. Noah has landed a marine biology internship and Lo wants to draw and paint perhaps even to vanquish her struggles with bulimia. But then things take a dramatic turn for them both when Noah mistakenly tries to save a mysterious girl from drowning. This dreamlike suspenseful storydeftly told from multiple points of viewdives deeply into selkie folklore while examining the fluid nature of love and family.
language: English
title: Tides
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt