Changing Tides (EPUB) von Michael Thomas Ford

A marine biologist learns about fatherhood, love, and himself over the course of one summer in this novel by the award-winning author ofFull Circle.

Marine biologist Ben Ransome understands the sea, especially the tiny, beautiful sea slugs he has studied and admired for most of his life. What Ben doesnt understand are people, and now, one of the most important people in his lifehis sixteen-year-old daughter Caddieis coming to live with him for the summer. But the sweet, happy child he remembers has been replaced by a wounded, angry stranger who resents everything about her father. Caddie is determined to act out in every way, leaving Ben feeling more alone than ever.

Hudson Jones has come to Monterey, California, to find the answers to all his questions. The young, ambitious graduate student believes hes found a lost John Steinbeck novel calledChanging Tides that seems to hint at the authors love for his best friend, Ed Doc Ricketts. If he can prove it, his career will be made. And then, perhaps he can quiet the personal demons that haunt him. But first, hell need some local help in his research, and Ben just may be able to supply him with access to the information he needs. Its clear to Hudson that the handsome, quietly passionate, Ben needs some help, too, with Caddie and his life.

Sharing dinners and walks on the beach, intellectual discussions and heart-to-heart conversations, Ben and Hudson move from tentative friendship to a surprising, revelatory relationship, one with the power to point them toward the most important discoveries of their lives. For Ben, its a summer of new beginnings, even as his daughter embarks on a dangerous course that will test the new happiness hes found . . .

Changing Tides is an extraordinary novel that explores the glorious flaws and frailties of human beings in the never-ending st