Trina, despite being nine, is obsessed with the threat. Because this 1983 isn’t the one that happened but one that might have happened, nuclear apocalypse is still a looming threat. Elsewhere in town, Sam and Trina Finster, the children of the woman who drove her car head-on into Junie Dobbs’ car, are trying to pick up the pieces after the loss of their mom. Nick, for reasons that emerge later in the novel, is also devastated by this accident. Dobbs life was recently shattered when his wife Junie was killed in a car accident.
Dobbs and Hayslip aren’t interested in an abstract menace. Dobbs’ deputy, Nick Hayslip, grabs the wingnut and roughly evicts him. Dobbs feels slighted by the dead bird on his desk. For the wingnut, the seagull portends something ominous and otherworldly coming to destroy this small coastal Oregon town. A religious wingnut drops a mutilated seagull onto Sheriff Dave Dobbs desk. The Mercy of the Tide opens in a sheriff’s office. I’m talking, of course, about the alternate 1983 in Keith Rosson’s new novel The Mercy of the Tide. People far from DC and national politics struggle to live lives without feeling overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness. The doomsday clock ticks ever closer to midnight. Moscow and the KGB threaten the American way of life. You can read the review in its original form here.
That said, here’s my review of Keith Rosson’s book Mercy of the Tide. Whether I know you or not, I say only what I genuinely believe in my reviews. It’s not nepotistic in the sense that I won’t review a book anything but honestly. It is somewhat nepotistic in the sense that I choose my friends’ books as the subject of my reviews instead of books by strangers. I’ll admit that sometimes I review books by friends and acquaintances of mine.
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