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    Surviving the Ebb and Flow

    Mar 01, 2022 4 minutes
    Review by Miranda Weiss

    LIFE BETWEEN THE TIDES

    BY ADAM NICOLSON

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 384 pp., $30

    ON AN EARLY DECEMBER night last year, my husband, my two daughters, and I suited up in all of our warmest clothes, grabbed headlamps, and drove to the beach. With temperatures in the single digits, it might have been nice to stay home and light a fire in the wood stove. But we felt pulled to the shore.

    There was to be an extreme low tide that night—minus five feet—one of the lowest of the year. On these sorts of tides, three stories of water

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