Brackish
Three families share a single fish camp on a brackish Gulf Coast tributary, each taking a turn at it, season by season. The summer the Renaults arrive, Wade Boyd is twenty-one, working under his iron-fisted father at the family boat yard, with no language he can say out loud for what he is.
Asa Renault looks at the water the way Wade has never let himself look at anything: like a place he already knows he is going to love. Across three postwar summers, in the camp's rhythm of arrival and leaving, the two of them build something the era has no name for and the town has no room for, something Wade wants more than his own safety and still cannot let himself hold.
Brackish is the story of a man who can see the far bank and cannot reach it, of a fear so deep it follows him into the one place he is finally safe. It is about what it costs to love through a locked door, and what it is to learn, too late, that the lock was always his own, and that someone else was always going to open it.
A novel of the postwar Gulf Coast South, for readers of Ron Rash, Larry Brown, and Alan Hollinghurst.
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