Grove Atlantic to Publish ‘Tides’ by Alumna Sara Freeman ‘13

Tides by alumna Sara Freeman ‘13 is now available for pre-order from Grove Atlantic.

Freeman’s debut novel follows Mara, who after a devastating loss flees her family and ends up in a wealthy seaside town. Struck by grief, Mara spends her days searching for food and her nights swimming in the ocean. As tourist season comes to a close and Mara’s money runs low, she finds a job at a local wine store. There, she meets the shop’s lonely owner Simon, and her reasons for flight begin to emerge.

Tide received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, with the latter calling the novel “beautiful and translucent. Mirroring the ebb and flow of water, short paragraphs leave lots of empty spaces on the page, enhancing the emotional gut punches latent in the text, while moments of heightened action run uninterrupted.”

Writer Emma Cline also praised the novel, stating, “Tides is a lyrical meditation on selfhood: Sara Freeman illuminates, with a poet’s eye, the shifting interior landscape of a woman adrift.”

Sara Freeman is a Montreal-born writer currently based out of Boston. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Fiction in 2013. At Columbia, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her work has previously been published in a number of literary magazines.